Originally Posted by
Magplug
'Mediatised'..... What language is that?
The number of times I have departed London in a busy R/T environment to have ATC comms blocked out by 'Practice Pan' so have turned down 121.5..... I have lost count. It is a flight safety hazard. The 787 even has a 'feature' where whenever 121.5 is in the window on box 2 it is automatically selected regardless of individual comms-box selections..... you can only turn your individual volumes down.
Historically 'Practice Pans' seem to have some charmed existence that prevents this flight safety hazard being banned by the CAA.
Didn’t there used to be separate frequency for ‘practice pan’ ?