Originally Posted by
Ian W
You can find my mini resume by clicking on my name and reading my profile. I spent a long time at Scottish Centre working in Distress and Diversion where we were less busy but when people had a problem they were normally in a more parlous state and further away from help and radio receivers. The case I was quoting was a call in from a light civil aircraft near Malin head, the aircraft in the sea had some sarbe on 121,5 that we couldn't hear and back chat on 121.5 was not an assistance. We had multiple receivers and that meant we heard all the farmyard impressions from 'professional pilots' who could not hear what was going on 600 miles away from them. Luckily the light GA pilot an amateur was more professional in approach than the airline pilots and we got a crew out of the water.
Well there you go Aerobat77. You just had your arsche handed to you on a plate so this is the point where you own up to being a Flightsim warrior and admit you’ve been wrong all along.
In the unlikely event that you fly for a living (note that I did not use the phrase ‘professional pilot’) I am sure you fit in well at your low-cost airline. Most of the abuse of 121.5 is clearest when they are in adjacent airspace and I’m sure it’s no coincidence.
That said, the pilot using a Condor callsign over Italy and Germany last week was the same one calling for score updates on 121.5 so it seems the rot has spread to Lufthansa.
Other posts in this thread are hugely disappointing coming as they do from people I’d thought in the past to be level headed. Such a shame.