Slight thread drift, but along the same lines... this is more regarding listening out when in the vicinity of an uncontrolled aerodrome.
Descending into aerodrome X the other day, OCTA in and out of IMC. Made a call on the area frequency and on CTAF well in advance and all of a sudden someone popped up on TCAS (thank god they atleast had transponder on). Numerous attempts were made to contact the aircraft but no relpies came back. Spoke to BN Cen but they couldn't see anyone as we were fading from radar coverage. The aircraft was cruising at a non vfr level above 5000' right at the base of the cloud. We levelled off, passed the traffic and descended and were able to sight the aircraft type once visual. Finally after we metioned the aircraft type in our calls did old mate pipe up and say who he was. Turns out he was on frequency and claims he didn't hear any of our numerous calls. Was off with the fairies and didn't give a sh%t about what was going on around him
Very dangerous predicament to be in, and total lack of airmanship on old mates behalf. The sort of bloke who probably would fly through CTA without even knowing it.
Almost was a silver lining to that cloud...