Unless, some wannabe with a scanner gets you nervous when he reports that:
Answer me this: Have you ever had to answer a phone call from some member of the public who swears they have seen an air-miss over their house. Or (as I mentioned previously), read a news report about an everyday operational occurance (a go around) in a national paper with information that only somebody listening to the freqency could know. I have. I don't afford them with the slightest bit of credibility, it's just we have the unfortunate situation of not being able to officially (or even off the record) set them straight.
(I'll conceed I've probably gone a little over the top with some of my posts. But I stand by what I say)
just fed up of “journeymen” getting righteous and not answering the question
Gary has answered this far more eloquently than I ever could..........and probably with less cursing.