Originally Posted by
Squawk7700
Where I come from, when the instructor walks out with the hand-held you know full well that someone is about to go solo.
If he’s carrying it in the lesson and you haven’t been solo yet, guess what!
That sounds like a school specific thing, I've never carried a hand held in instructional activities, or during solo supervision. The school's all had a base radio approved for the purpose however in the ops area. The only time I've used a 'hand held' as such was one strapped to an ultralight on ultralight frequencies, which I plugged headsets into, which came under the AMS regulations.
PS not all hand held airband radios are approved for use on Australian frequencies.
BTW I'm not sure the instructor helped that much in that video, probably even spooked the student a bit by being on frequency.