tea and bikkies
in the forces its called an interview without tea and bikkies, or giving the boss a good listening to! but on a more serious note can any pilots please explain why your so reluctant to say the words pan and mayday? i was in the raf flight ops branch for 23 years and only heard one mayday, and that was a bulldog who lost his engine on departure. even when we had an f104 pilot eject in germany, he didnt use pan or mayday despite talking to us for over a minute. hed had a birdstrike if anyone interested!