PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Nightmare on second solo
View Single Post
Old 14th Nov 2008, 17:54
  #29 (permalink)  
BackPacker
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Amsterdam
Posts: 4,598
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Everyone here should be able to tune a radio eg to 121.5 and put out a call whilst flying a (practice) forced landing pattern with a high rate of descent.
To what purpose? Sure, D&D might pick up the call from low level and call Full Sutton via the landline, so that they can get the word out on the radio, but I think by then the glider will have landed anyway.

Full Sutton Radio will not be listening on 121.5, and knowing the type of traffic that typically frequent non-towered airfields, neither will any of the traffic.
BackPacker is offline