So we now have two action items for the regulator:
(1) Make it an offence to transmit a MAYDAY in circumstances in which at least 2 arseclowns who weren't in the cockpit and have none of the facts of an emergency are of the opinion that the pilot who was in the cockpit should have spent his or her time doing something else than transmitting a MAYDAY.
(2) Amend the AIP to include this broadcast to be made in any circumstance in which someone considers a MAYDAY transmission to be poor airmanship: "Shut up and die like an aviator."
The contribution made by Downunda and Godzone to the collective wisdom called "airmanship" and "professionalism" is
immeasurable.
