Ferris
Yes, quite right. Work is interesting - bloody P3's everywhere. Shame half of them don't call you up when they're in your airspace though. I read in a copy of one of the UK tabloids that the passengers on a P & O cruise liner were at the point of mutiny ("Captain, the passengers are revolting!" - old joke) because they were going to be taken through a war zone by routing through the Red Sea and Suez canal. The atricle went on to say that at least the stop in Dubai had been cancelled. Just goes to prove the world is full of d@*%heads.
Outside work, it is the people who don't live here who think we're in a war zone. At the moment there is nothing much to be afraid of here in Dubai but we're keeping our eyes open and taking the usual sensible precautions. Those of us who've had 25 years of the IRA etc don't find it much too get excited about.
Contact Tower
That NOTAM is a repeat of quite an old one but it makes one good point - that pilots should not use 121.5 as a chat frequency! I for one am fed up with monitoring it and hearing crews passing all sorts on non-emergency info on it. Especially at the moment you would think they would use a bit of common sense. I also like the line "...MAY BE SUBJECT TO INTERCEPTION,QUARANTINE,DISABLING OR DESTRUCTION." Americans have such a way with the English language!
As usual, it's good here, eh?