On 2006-09-02, Mxsmanic wrote:
The reason I ask is that improper and misunderstood radio
communication is a leading cause of accidents, and so it seems that

If you look at the NTSB reports, you'll find that this is not so - in
fact, accidents caused by bad radio communications are so rare, they
barely register as statistical noise! For each accident caused by poor
communication, there are probably thousands of accidents caused by a
pilot flying into weather they cannot handle.

Aircraft fly on the principles of Bernoulli and Newton, not Marconi, and
will fly quite happily with no radio at all, so long as the pilot
remembers to look out of the window and not bang into anything.

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