Guard (121.5) police get it wrong
Join Date: May 2003
Location: eastmidlands
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On gaurd!!!
I think this whole issue is a pretty daft debate!
There will always be those who accidental transmit on the frequency but by blindly shouting out 'On Guard' in annoyance it tanter mount to 'Aggravated flying' perhaps we should introduce a points system?
currently two aggravated driving convictions could see you banned for a year perhaps we should do that with the guard police
I can remember being interrupted by just such a person after intercepting a ditching helicopter and trying to catch him before he went for a swim only to be greeted by the dulcet tones of a guard policeman
Had this idiot waited a few seconds before jumping in and blocking the frequency I was on the end of this pilots ultimate rescue at the time (R122 22 Sqn Valley) what a prat!
Luckily for the pilot he was close to the Morecombe rig and just happened to have a support vessel close and free to help.
There ends the lesson I feel?
Don’t do it!
Wait see if it’s a genuine call, hopefully a controller will intervene if the call persists!
What’s not acceptable is so called professionals jumping in on someone’s unfortunate guffaw however annoying it may seem!
A piece of good advice from an earlier post:-
I just turn down the volume of Guard low, very low. Sort of like turning your wife down so you can hear the TV. After we coast out of Europe, and the nuisance jabbering ends, the volume goes up.
There will always be those who accidental transmit on the frequency but by blindly shouting out 'On Guard' in annoyance it tanter mount to 'Aggravated flying' perhaps we should introduce a points system?
currently two aggravated driving convictions could see you banned for a year perhaps we should do that with the guard police I can remember being interrupted by just such a person after intercepting a ditching helicopter and trying to catch him before he went for a swim only to be greeted by the dulcet tones of a guard policeman
Had this idiot waited a few seconds before jumping in and blocking the frequency I was on the end of this pilots ultimate rescue at the time (R122 22 Sqn Valley) what a prat!
Luckily for the pilot he was close to the Morecombe rig and just happened to have a support vessel close and free to help.
There ends the lesson I feel?
Don’t do it!
Wait see if it’s a genuine call, hopefully a controller will intervene if the call persists!
What’s not acceptable is so called professionals jumping in on someone’s unfortunate guffaw however annoying it may seem!
A piece of good advice from an earlier post:-
I just turn down the volume of Guard low, very low. Sort of like turning your wife down so you can hear the TV. After we coast out of Europe, and the nuisance jabbering ends, the volume goes up.
