For the benefit of readers others than Clare, she is correct: If your aircraft has a serviceable VHF radio you must broadcast in accordance with the rules, even if you happen to be operating at a place at or near which fitment of VHF radio is not mandatory.
The point I was trying (scornfully) to make is that there are lots of places at which aircraft are not required to be fitted with a serviceable VHF radio. At those places it is open to aircraft to operate without a VHF radio fitted, and it is also open to aircraft with VHF radio fitted, but unserviceable, to operate (provided of course the defect is entered in the MR and the radio is placarded U/S). Many of those places are marked on aeronautical charts. Some aren’t.
At those places it is very imprudent to assume everyone is listening to and broadcasting on VHF. The fact that you may know an aircraft has a VHF that isn’t being used isn’t the same as knowing about the aircraft that don’t have a VHF.
Last edited by Creampuff; 5th Sep 2014 at 23:07.