Originally Posted by
Wizofoz
If something is defined in law as being an emergency, it's an emergency.
The point is, we don't need a law to prescribe every possible scenario that constitutes an emergency. Does the law specify that a wing on fire is an emergency? Jammed flight controls? Propeller becoming detached from the engine?
None of the above are listed in the regulations as mandatory situations in which to declare a MAYDAY but I sure as hell would be using MAYDAY in one of the above examples before I used it because I was in the circuit with 29 minutes of fuel remaining....
The point is, we don't need some arseclown at CASA who has probably never even sat in a cockpit to declare an individual situation an emergency.