Always a good idea to make a short call with Pan-Pan etc & callsign then....pause.... and wait for an acknowledgement. Appreciate you may be having a bad time up there but you might have caught us in the middle of doing something else and I hate asking emergencies to 'say again'.
NOT ACCORDING TO THE BOOK The whole purpose of doing these things correctly is so that in an Emergency or Urgency situation you do it automatically and correct. On hearing a PAN call, you stop doing something else because the PAN has priority over everything except a MAYDAY!
a) ‘MAYDAY/MAYDAY/MAYDAY’ (or ‘PAN PAN/PAN PAN/PAN PAN’);
b) Name of the station addressed (when appropriate and time and circumstances permitting);
c) Callsign;
d) Type of aircraft;
e) Nature of the emergency;
f) Intention of the person-in-command;
g) Present or last known position, flight level/altitude and heading;
h) Pilot qualifications, Not ICAO requirement!
i) Any other useful information e.g. endurance remaining, number of people on board
(POB) etc.
e) Ship in distress
f) Intention to orbit ship
i) Endurance i.e I can orbit for an hour
everything else is standard