Humour aside for a moment, I've noted a few threads here and on the Flyer forum about RT failures - each time the pilot, usually relatively inexperienced, has clearly been fairly unnerved by the experience, and did not seem to have been totally clear about whether they'd done the right thing or not.
Okay, I'm an old fart who did his first solo non-radio anyhow. However, I still fly non-radio from time to time, and was taught adequately in my opinion how to deal with these (non) events.
So when did that change? Have we really got a generation of FIs now who just aren't teaching their students how to cope in the air without a voice at the end of the line - or who are passing out the message that RT helps aeroplanes fly?
After all, the number of threads we're seeing clearly shows (what I think that hairy ar*ed olduns like myself and the deranged Caledonian knew already) that radios do fail from time to time, so nobody should really be that surprised by it.
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