Originally Posted by
stilton
Always find it amusing to hear lectures on appropriate RT from the country who brought us ‘practice pans’
It's a particularly weird and irrational mindset to conflate RT standards among the aviation community at large and completely unrelated procedures established by a regulating authority.
Originally Posted by WHBM
And what do USA controllers make of "Pan Pan Pan" ?
My understanding is that the FAA (among a number of other juristictions worldwide) does not officially recognise/adopt this phraseology. If this is indeed the case one can only wonder why, it's a extremely useful to be able to declare a level of urgency rather than an outright (by definition potentially life threatening) emergency.