Originally Posted by
Ontheslide
A few years ago during the wet in the Kimberley, a rather large group of touring Ultralight (recreational) thingies (10 - 15 aircraft in total) were approaching a large CTAF airport. They decided that each one of them had to give minute by minute updates on frequency of their position and intentions due to the cells around the airfield. The commentary consisted of the following conversation (I forget the names used but I'm sure you get the idea).
Ultralight Pilot one: "Hey Fred, I dont see you. Where are you"
Ultralight Pilot two (aka Fred): "Ah I'm 6.2 miles at 3500ft"
Ultralight Pilot one: "OK mate I'm 6.3 miles at 3600ft,"
Fred: " Are you using GPS or DME" (the airport only had a NDB)
Ultralight Pilot one: "Im using the numbers right up here on my little screen"
Fred: "suppose i should keep an eye out for you then"
Pilot flying a 210 for a local operator: "Aviation would be a lot richer if you didn't Fred"
Slightly off-topic, but this is why a ‘low level’ MULTICOM of 126.7 and default CTAF of 126.7 would be ‘entertaining’.