Originally Posted by
Dick Smith
...As I am old school I monitor Sydney Radar when in the lane with my number one radio but I don't make announcements on this frequency when it is ganged with Sydney departures. Don't want to be partially responsible for a serious airline incident or accident.
This made me chuckle a little, I remember during my training having a black 109 go past me quietly on the right hand side as I was cruising up the lane making all of my calls. At least you gave your reasons. The lack of professionalism (unrelated to above)in that Bankstown lane area is disturbing, I hate working in there, surely it could be paired with victor one, northern beaches etc and taken away from the Sydney departures frequencies.
I might start monitoring 121.5 after reading this thread though, makes a lot of sense.