With respect FBW, I did listen, but feel you missed the point of my earlier post.
I never doubted that London Info would do a brilliant job with a Mayday call, but the point I was trying to make is the difficultly in getting that mayday heard by London in the first place. Sadly my impression of London Info on a sunny weekend is that unlike Scottish Info, there are too many BS (appropriate abbreviation!) requests going on to make it a reliable emergency channel.
Not knocking the guys and gals who work in London Info in any way - they have a huge area to cover and the sheer number of my fellow pilots who cant seem to fly from A-B or even A-A without passing their life story over the radio overload the system on sunny weekends IMHO
Last edited by Mariner9; 23rd Jul 2013 at 16:15.