WWW with the stats given in that report there are 160 calls for training a month which works out at about 6 a day.
As the report says each call lasts a Min. This isn't a number that they made up its a fact which has proberly cost 1000's of pounds to prove.
So on Sunday you might get 40 mins of calls in the space of 10 hours.
The percieved constant stream proberly isn't. If it wasn't for the fact that most of the calls were using cringing RT you would have tuned them out. A bit like if you hear a poor bookin on box one. If the other aircraft had given a standard call eg callsign, passing level, level cleared and sid. You hardly even registered it was made but if you hear callsign ,err um, sid ,er um, something which isn't required. Your attention is drawn to it with a proffesional tut tut.
Anyway even if they did get a seperate frq and all the flashy stuff. 2 weeks later the next moan would start. To much background noise on on 121.5 its not squelched on the standard settings. Have to turn the box down so it doesn't distract me, or something else equally problomatic solving. Or something that the CAA really can't do anything about eg none G reg aircraft using it for anything other than emergency.
It keeps the equipment working and as we all know elecy stuff doesn't like being left on standby for long periods. It train's the low hour pilots, it trains the controllers, and I have a suspision as well that the fact it annoys BA captains to frothing point it will been seen as another good reason to keep it as it is.
SRG are proberly quite happy to let this run and run. They have a good safety case for maintaining it as it is. And at least it deflects and keeps the moans away from subjects they wouldn't have as strong case and would be technically and more expensive to solve.
Last edited by mad_jock; 20th May 2006 at 12:25.