Hi All
A lot of people getting hot under the collar on this one. I think the CAA missive sums it up. I spend most of my flying with 121.5 (or Mirage FM
if flying over France) on box 2. The amount in reality that a practice pan makes is negligable compared to the other chat.
Is it a valuable service? it is. One can ask the question if it saves one life then its worth it. People are still flying into cumulo granite.
http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/cms_resou...ZAJ%202-06.pdf
As for state differences there are hundreds, us pro boys live with it. It is a fact of life. Live with it.
Getting distacted by practice pan on 121.5, then review your capacity management. It may be a good trigger to indicate overload. BASIC human factors stuff.
I also live in the GA world. Instuctors, have you prepaired you student well enough. At Waltham last week, pilot on student solo landed in 6k vis. For the previous 10 mins he had stopped lhr departures. Perhaps a call to D&D may have saved the airlines a few pounds. But I do not blame the student, The instructor however?
DFC, some good comments, but the 121.5 system works. For one % of airtime it;s worth it
If a guy is lost, I would doubt if capacity is at a state to find frequencies of an airfield he may be near.
Enough from me, I'm off to listen to Mirage FM this afternoon.
Regards and respect to all aviation people
Wide