I (almost) positively identified one of these clowns a while back due to the pronounced and distinct 400Hz whine on his comms.
Gotta agree on this one. When I'm exceptionally salty, I reply to "last call" with "Do you promise?"
VHF is good for what, 150nm, so perhaps there’s a greater density of idiots in the air out my way? Depending on the time of day, I’ll here guard mischief multiple times a flight.
Absolutely true. Radio discipline in general is magnitudes better in Canada and pretty much everywhere else.
Most effective line I ever heard was during the pandemic, before hiring picked up again. Still a bunch of meowing, until someone replied "I thought all the p*ssies got furloughed." Silence on guard for the rest of that flight.
Except in Quebec they talk about American pilots in French on Center freq.
Nope... How can you have a LAST CALL and then call out Meow?????
Oh, I'll have to use that!
Except somebody probably WOULD go through the effort to identify you for that one.
"...turning downwind rat meow."
Ha ha, Just don’t use 121.5 as your CTAF.
So does "my favorite color is red" - but neither one is in the AIM or really all that useful.
That would probably result in a response something like, “If there wasn’t so much meowing and excessive verbiage, it would be fine. It’s the pilots’ fault.”
Literally, lol
Only problem is that they have 9 lives.
Get a bigger firing squad.
I haven't flown in Canada yet, but Germany is better as well.
You’ve double-checked the volume and your audio panel setting for your second radio, right?
Yeah, that's not enforceable. That said, 93.339, which includes special air traffic rules for the Washington DC SFRA and FRZ, requires monitoring 121.5 if suitably equipped to do so, inside that airspace.
De facto working in Mexico, our competition is not the air users, but the local taxi cabs poaching our VHF formation use freqs. In fairness, that has subsided quite a bit with the proliferation of online app ride sharing, even up here in poverty stricken, Chihuahuan Desert Marscape northern Coahuila.
That's wild. I spent over a decade in Mexico and never heard anything like that. Maybe it's a regional thing? I can't imagine hearing a pilot calling out his pattern in between dispatch calls for a taxi to Don Jiménez's house.
If you want to do that, the proper pro-word would be "Out."
In the United States, the FAA requires that all aircraft, if capable, maintain a listening watch on the VHF emergency frequency 121.5 MHz (also known as "guard") while operating within the National Airspace System. This is to assist in identifying potential emergency transmissions and to be able to respond to or relay distress calls. Air traffic control facilities are also required to monitor 121.5 MHz and must conduct two-way, ground-to-air checks at least weekly to ensure effective coverage.
