On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:12:28 -0700, wrote:

Also, the 7700 squawk really wakes up the system to work in your behalf.
;-)

This is an understatement. 7700 will light up ATC systems.

The one time I squawked 7700 on an in-flight cylinder failure to L31
(Covington-St Tamminy LA), I contacted 121.5 and squawked 7700.

Once I got transferred to New Orleans apporach, they couldn't give me a
standard squawk code to change to fast enough.

As others said, no fuss no muss afterwards. All New Orleans approach asked
for of me was to contact FSS to advise I was safe on the ground. Never
heard a thing afterwards.

I shared my experiences with rec.aviation.student. Original post can be
found at
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...c3724728?tvc=1

Allen