Hmm, 10 miles 3000' - hadn't heard of that restriction and it certainly was/isn't an SOP there - not to say you aren't entirely correct BEagle.
I don't wish to give an impression of accepting gash r/t here - I was a complete r/t Nazi in Jerez and rightly so. But my action undoubtably lifted the spirits of half a dozen bored FI's sat watching the rain in the crewroom wondering how they were going to make it into the airlines - then up crackles me who was sat in that same crew room two years ago. Great morale boost.
Having listened to the freq for a good 2 mins there was no activity whatsoever heard and my transmissions were deliberately kept <3secs so any genuine caller had a chance to but in.
If you are going to do it then that is probably a sensible approach.
That said I agree in general that its not a good idea and if everyone did it every time they flew over somewhere they used to work then the whole thing would become a shambles.
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