Originally Posted by
A330busdriver
Some of the "advice" my friend was given during his command training in realtion to fuel, and delays (in the London TMA in paticular) was to declare a medical emergency if things were looking iffy, on the basis that such declarations are always granted and rarely ever followed up. On the other hand, PANs and Maydays are.
Perhaps you should point out to your "friend" that wasting the time of the Ambulance Service, on a bogus medical emergency call-out, isn't very clever.