How's this for a Tower/Pilot exchange in an Emergency?

"B a r r y" wrote

Steven, What are controllers taught, if anything, about make and model
of aircraft?

During recurrency training we are taught that controllers are not experts on
aircraft or weather, and most are not pilots. If you tell them you just had
a vacuum failure they may not know exactly what the implications of that
statement are - I'm sure that many if not most would, but there are no
guarantees. If you say "I just lost an engine" it seems normal to assume
that you have more than one the way that statement is worded, but that
doesn't really matter because if you want priority handling, you need to
declare an emergency.

When you go through these training courses and failures are occurring left
and right, you learn to declare an emergency at the drop of a hat because
priority handling can be important. An example I recall from the course is
an incident that happened a few years back where a twin lost an engine and
the pilot was asked if he wanted to declare an emergency - he declined.
Later when he was on final a conflict developed and the twin was told to go
around - not an ideal situation but the pilot decided that he didn't need or
want priority handling by failing to declare.

BDS