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. So if it happened for real (when it happens for real...!) I will probably just about managed 'mayday x3, engine failure, 5 miles north of Blanktown, stand by' before getting on with the important business of landing the plane.
Tim
I know it all depends on how you are taught it, but in real life my understanding is:
MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY G-CD................ and then the info - not starting with the callsign as suggested above
It was also taught to me that you should put the station you are addressing before the callsign, but I always reckon I will be sh1tting myself when doing it, so don't worry too much about that. A good thing to remember is RIP Huey Lewis.....
Reason
Intention
Position
Huey...... Heading
Lewis..... Level
MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY Manchester Approach G-SOSO PA28 two people on board. Engine failure, intend to land 4 mile south of Warrington in the LLR. Heading 355 decending through 900ft.
Yes, I know, there is something moronic about having RIP as part of your checklist for a Mayday call, but hey, it is on topic.......