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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!
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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
Thanks Whopity for that quote although conveniently you missed this bit....
The message will contain as many as possible of the following items:
So you can pass them in whatever order you like, whenever you like so long as you pass the pertinent info.
Of course - if you are already in 2-way communication with a unit they will have most of it already so it can be disregarded and if an emergency occurs all you need to do is state the type of emergency together with your callsign.
At our unit we operate solo for the last 4 hours of the day and if I need a natural break (with poratable radio) the only paper I will have to hand to log your details if you call PAN at that time will be the stuff on a roll to my right!!
Personally
I prefer to use the rules with a healthy dose of common sense rather than blind adherence.
But when it comes to emergencies - there are so many variables you rarely get one that is standard.