Pan or Mayday?
I have "Mayday"ed twice; once because the smoke coming up the windscreen persuaded me that I was on fire, and the second when I saw so much smoke from a trawler below that it seemed to be on fire.
Technically I should have "Mayday"ed only in the first case as it was "my" aircraft that seemed to be in immediate danger.
The trawler justified only a "Pan", it seems. However the RAAF people were not censorious.
No fire; only smoke in both cases. But who knew?
thekite