Hi,

In article ,
Bertie the wrote:
I'm more of a frying pan than a kettle.



And you'll notice i have not excluded americans in this thread.

Glad to hear it!

I can't remember precisely what he said, but the jist of the
conversation is there and it's pretty much the way it happened. I don;'t
even know the format off th etop of my head, but he probabyl did it
right.

The format for a PAN is the same as for a Mayday. The book I have uses NAAN
IPPA as the reminder:

Name of station addresses
Aircraft callsign
Aircraft type
Nature of emergency

Intentions
Position (alitude, heading etc.)
Pilot qualifications (bit pointless if you ask me, but I guess it might be
useful to know you've got no Instrument rating)
Any other info

Pretty slim. I've never even used the Mayday and I've had several
emerencies and just declared an emergency and got everything I needed. I
think I'd ony use a Mayday to cut through heavy radio traffic if it was
neccesary.

As I understand it that's the primary reason for a standardised word, that
it enables you to cut through all the other traffic and everyone else knows
to shut up.

Andy