Originally Posted by
Dan4267
say that you are lost
Yes, do this. Don't be shy!
You can't tell how you'll react when your mouth starts to dry out. When I got lost I forgot all about my lovely VOR and simply flew around in a flap until I gathered the courage to own up.
I even forgot about saying Pan Pan. My call was "I'm lost, can I have a radar vector please?" Asked not to go any further west, I thought fine,I'll pick a nice round heading to fly on... west.
My head was completely scrambled, I'm making all these basic errors, and d'you know where I was? I was half a mile and closing fat, dumb and happy to an active para zone with a jump in progress.
The lesson is this! If you're in a jam reach out right away. Better to burn bright red in the cockpit where no one can see than risk burning on the ground and all over the news!