Yesterday, there was a problem with the audio system in the Main Lecture Theatre at Sywell. As I was giving a seminar today, I brought my AOR wide band receiver along, in case there was some way of using it with the radio microphones direct into the theatre sound desk.
So as I approached Northampton on the A508, I listened in on 122.7 for amusement.
What a bunch of rank amateurism. A helicopter which blundered into the RW21 approach and started querying the aerodrome information was told that he had no approval to visit - so please vacate the area. Top marks, Sywell, if the beggar was that dim, telling him to go away was the only safe solution.
If there was a 'Dick of the Day' award for the least compliant radio call, it must go to the pilot with the 'Exam' call sign who clearly hadn't bothered to read the NOTAMs. I wonder whether he passed whatever test he was doing...
The procedures are very simple, so why do people STILL screw up?
And NEVER call a ground-pounder "Sir" this side of the Atlantic!