Originally Posted by
tmmorris
Do they actually fail you for not getting the PAN and the MAYDAY relay in the correct order?
In real life your MAYDAY is more likely to go
'G-CD mayday, mayday, mayday, engine failure, stand by...'
especially if you are on a radar service at the time - they know where you are! My FI drummed into me that otherwise the one thing you MUST tell them is where you are, or they won't know where to direct the SAR to. Tim
One thing that's been hammered into me is "Aviate, Navigate, Communicate". In "real life"... I think we'd all just do what we could when we could.
However a relay Mayday is quite important to get right as some other poor sod needs help and hasn't been heard.
I have to admit that the ground school is quite good for this as it teaches you the correct format to use (i.e. how the guy should be transmitting).
Therefore if you miss something you know
what you've missed.
If there is one thing that's come across very strongly to me it's that if you think about what you're writing you miss half the details. They've shown me a sort of short hand which just makes everything so much quicker. It's something they developed themselves to help students out and it's probably the one subject I would recommend taking ground school on.
As for what you're passed and failed on - I don't know. All I do know is that they are looking for fluency and "polish".