Originally Posted by framer
Like others have said, it is obvious when people posting here are not professional pilots and it creates a situation where there is debate about things ( such as above) that there is no debate about between the pro's. It is a waste of space and moves the conversation further away from where it should be in a professional pilots forum.
If you are using 99% of your brain to try to make sense of what erroneous instrumentation is telling you while at the same time being affected by g forces, now is not the time to allocate 10% of your brain space to making a radio call.
I've been addressing this very topic repeatedly today with my non-aviator friends. They simply cannot comprehend the difference between making a radio call containing dubious information - yielding zero result - and a call to 911/999 asking for assistance.
News flash, lurkers: "Ground, 8501, we've departed" will get you
no
help
at all.