Fortyodd says:
TC,
ATC 2 is direct off the battery so would be available. ATC 1 requires avionics on and either the shed bus switch or a generator online.
Airwave head is same as ATC 1.
I always thought a mayday was to tell someone you needed assistance and was a last resort to leave a record of where you went down to speed up any assistance needed. All this "leaving clues with ATC" is rather quite quaint, methinks
. I would assume that David (a) had his hands full and (b) knew that ATC knew where he was. We still don't know if Stratchclyde Police Ops room received a message from the TFO's. Any radio hams out there - listening in?
Lemain: If we followed that advice then (a) there would be 10 dead now. Why not have two train drivers, two coach drivers?
Remember everything we do in life is all about risk.
Definition of risk: Frequency x Outcome. How often have police helo's flown over city centres x how often have they fallen out of the sky?
Now is most certainly not the time to make decisions like that.......and thankfully they won't.
