I love it when someone's PTT is stuck
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2020 4:38 pm
It used to piss me off, when someone's PTT would get stuck, and all of us
on the frequency would get the benefit of their cockpit commentary.
But now, I look on the bright side. Their radio is burning up, transmitting
continuously and internet "experts" that lecture endlessly and piously on
the "essential" safety value of a comm radio are shown to be ignorant idiots,
because anyone experienced knows that when you really need it - when it
gets busy and a lot of aircraft are trying to transmit - the comm radio becomes
a useless distraction, stopping pilots from flying their airplanes close to the ground.
Use your eyeballs. If you're too lazy to look outside, TCAS.
I'm sure everyone here flies surface acro at 400 knots, and everyone also flies
NORDO antiques, but we used to mix them at an uncontrolled airport all the time
with no problem, because people would
LOOK OUTSIDE
I'm considered a moron by Canadians, but try riding a motorcycle in busy traffic
sometime. You will learn the value of keeping your head on a swivel. Same
thing in an airplane. Or, learn to play poker. You don't spend the whole game,
staring at your cards. You spend all your time thinking about what the other
guy is going to do.
on the frequency would get the benefit of their cockpit commentary.
But now, I look on the bright side. Their radio is burning up, transmitting
continuously and internet "experts" that lecture endlessly and piously on
the "essential" safety value of a comm radio are shown to be ignorant idiots,
because anyone experienced knows that when you really need it - when it
gets busy and a lot of aircraft are trying to transmit - the comm radio becomes
a useless distraction, stopping pilots from flying their airplanes close to the ground.
Use your eyeballs. If you're too lazy to look outside, TCAS.
I'm sure everyone here flies surface acro at 400 knots, and everyone also flies
NORDO antiques, but we used to mix them at an uncontrolled airport all the time
with no problem, because people would
LOOK OUTSIDE
I'm considered a moron by Canadians, but try riding a motorcycle in busy traffic
sometime. You will learn the value of keeping your head on a swivel. Same
thing in an airplane. Or, learn to play poker. You don't spend the whole game,
staring at your cards. You spend all your time thinking about what the other
guy is going to do.