But he was rather confused and somewhat hurt when I told him he was talking pish about an alternator failure being worthy of a mayday on a day VFR flight in class G.
You should have heard Scottish the day I had an alternator failure inbound to EGPK and told them that I was turning the transponder off and might lose the radio if the battery gave out.
I'm sure that controllers are supposed to be calming down worried pilots, not the reverse.
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