Hey Bluebeard!
Practise makes perfect as far as we're concerned. It helps you and it helps us.
If anyone wants to do something other than practise lost then that's fine. Although that is the most common emergency declared, it's certainly not the only problem that you might encounter. We just ask that you bear a couple of things in mind:
1. The geographical limitations of the 121.5 system. Speech generally we'll hear, though we might not get any or much DF outside the coverage area.
2. Listen out before transmitting.
We are mindful of the kind of problems that Keygrip mentioned as were discussed on a similar thread some months ago. But we are established to provide facilities for real and practise emergencies and as I mentioned, practise makes perfect and hopefully may have a positive impact upon the incident figures.
If anyone has any questions for us or if your club or flying school wants to come and visit, just ring, our number is in all the docs.
Safe flying everyone!
