Alaskan Sea-Duction
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Remember the use of Pan Pan or Mayday for the average US coastal boater is a bit irrelevant.
Bit more often or not...using mayday is better than not...better to have the world at your beck and call if you need it....and they can always stand down...than to sound more casual and have things go to crap fast.
Excellent advice!!! An Avianca B707 crash in New York would be an excellent example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avianca_Flight_52
Sad.
Feel free to use proper VHF communications when visiting Canada. They are well understood. In fact, the CCG will call you on it.
Northern Spy said:Sad. Feel free to use proper VHF communications when visiting Canada. They are well understood. In fact, the CCG will call you on it.
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Interesting read, especially from those that state forget the mayday call and just call the coast guard. I believe this is bad advice.
Stating pan-pan or mayday sets certain actions into place and could save your life and those you are responsible for on your vessel. It also lets everyone else know that you are in a bad situation.
Know how to use your radio and the proper vhf etiquette.
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Interesting read, especially from those that state forget the mayday call and just call the coast guard. I believe this is bad advice.
Stating pan-pan or mayday sets certain actions into place and could save your life and those you are responsible for on your vessel. It also lets everyone else know that you are in a bad situation.
Know how to use your radio and the proper vhf etiquette.
Having taught a lot of aircraft simulator in my past, I am a total advocate for proper radio procedure. On our coast I hear people in trouble and they rarely use the correct procedure resulting in long conversations back and forth as the long-suffering radio operator tries to gather the information they need in order to respond. Add to that the morons who use Channel 16 like a telephone just broadcasts to the planet that they are idiots, never took any training and should be spending the afternoon in Walmart, not running a vessel putting people's lives at risk. Notice how the Coasties always use proper procedure?