Originally Posted by DFC
If your instructor had provided you with a full and correct briefing on what services are available and the limitations, would you have still required to actually make a call?
I must wonder if the service was withdrawn, would instructors put more care into teaching and assessing navigation during training since there would not be the simple....."if you get lost, call on 121.50 for a training fix" message to the solo student who probably is not as good at navigation as they should be before being sent solo.
Is 121.50 in the UK being used as a navigation aid? (don't have a VOR or ADF or DME - call 121.50 for a training fix).
Regards,
DFC
DFC
Timelapse kindly made the call because
we asked him to in order provide training for one of the D&D assistants.
Where is your evidence for 121.5 being used as safety blanket by instructors in sending out student pilots who arent capable of navigating correctly? Or is that another of your factually incorrect statements that you throw around with such regularity?
And no 121.5 is not being used in the UK as a Nav aid, to suggest so is ridiculous.
As an aside in the couple of minutes I have been typing this there have been 4 inappropriate transmissions on 121.5 (yes I am at work), one guy has even just called for start on 121.5
I kid you not.
Regards
Diddley Dee