"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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"Morgans" wrote in message
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It was my understanding that a Pan gave you clear communications, by
getting
all other calls on the freq. stopped. Close?

Since "pan-pan" declares an emergency (specifically, an urgency
condition), others on the frequency will presumably have the good sense to
yield, though I'm not aware of any regulation that explicitly requires
them to do so.

To follow up: although I still don't know of a corresponding regulation, AIM
6-3-1d does stipulate that distress calls have top priority, and urgency
calls have priority over everything but distress calls.

--Gary