Exactly. What some here fail to realize is that R/T is NOT an end unto itself, it's communication. US ATC doesn't need a verbatim "mayday" call to begin emergency response as the situation dictates, as this audio clearly shows.
Absolutely. Americans don't use the word 'Mayday' or do practice 'Pans' as I observed much earlier in the thread. We don't stand on ceremony in the air (if you've heard us talk on the radio, you know what I mean
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We worry about pay and time off, we leave it to others to endlessly debate R/T procedures. It's a cultural thing.
We do talk some of that there Roger Ramjet talk in the military to keep NATO happy but most of us lose that dialect quickly after we get the civilian job.
Our style is catching on, just spoke with a lady controller at Maastricth tonight and she was using 'Cheerio, and 'Okey-dokey' on the airwaves.