I'm curious for my own personal knowledge why using MODEX is useful for those particular evolutions. I'm not questioning the wisdom, just don't understand.
OK, I'll hang up and listen. 😆
I actually have no idea, with respect to shore ATC. Obviously at the boat, it’s all side numbers and only the numbers unlike this which might be “AJ 201” for example, but it isn’t like they are handing off strips to the FAA. Maybe it has to do with ADIZ or something? I have no idea. A fair number of years too late to matter, now you have me wondering
My other guess is that it is in some original instruction for Naval Air Station ATC supporting shore to ship ops, written way back when, that has never been updated or questioned, and we just still do it. There aren’t really a lot of CQ ops that involve civilian ATC, other than maybe a gaining ARTCC or combined approach, since we always det for CQ from an NAS, and briefed diverts are normally other mil fields (field arresting gear often being a requirement or at least highly desirable). Can’t tell you what the diverts for more northern west coast CQ might be, but in the SOCAL op-area it is NZY and NKX, and east coast, it is KNKT, KNBC or KNIP if not KNTU. So not much that isn’t Navy-Navy
Worst part of this whole exchange is that now i feel like i might like to do it one last time, at night, before i retire. What kind of Stockholm syndrome is that??!