I'm not into joining the guard police, but I make it a practice to monitor 121.50 when much north of the GTA. You never know if someones in trouble and there's lots of uncontrolled airspace up there.
It was loony day today I tell you, I was hearing one dumbass chatter after another then what sounded like a couple of wolf howls and some laughter, kid you not.
Finally I just stopped monitoring.
I didn't say anything but if this is someones here ideas of jollies would you just shut up! Not the first time I've heard chatter chatter but this was ridiculous.
The Automation generation. They're all bored out of their minds watching the autopilot fly; Fucking around on guard keeps them occupied. They'd do it on 126.7 except there's too much chatter from XXXXXXX students telling us their positions every 5 miles and asking us to advise if we're a conflict.
In my humble opinion if the public heard half the juvenile bullshit said on guard I swear to Christ they'd never get on an airplane again, especially down in the States. However, I'm not the guard police - I suffer in silence.
Rockie wrote:In my humble opinion if the public heard half the juvenile bullshit said on guard I swear to Christ they'd never get on an airplane again, especially down in the States. However, I'm not the guard police - I suffer in silence.
I'd have to agree.
If people want a "watercooler frequency" then use 123.45 instead!
Or just act like professionals and stop f@cking around with the radio! Tell your stupid jokes and make your fart noises IN the cockpit...I don't want to hear it!
I have noticed an increase in juvenile behavior on 121.5 in the last few years, a disproportionate amount of it from US aircraft. Apart from displaying an ignorance of how the frequency, and the customs surrounding its use came in to be, their behavior tells me that they haven't been in the industry long enough to experience a full blown emergency and need the frequency to get some help. If they want a professional pilots pay, the should bring a professional pilot to the table. Just my $0.02.
Wow - I must confess that I'm generally on 126.7 and terminal for most of my flights these days, so I never realized that people were messing around on 121.5. That blows me away that people would be so childish on such an important freq- I know if we want to chat we always use 123.45.
And as an aside, while I found the original Living the Dream only moderately amusing, the Part II link in a previous post was hilarious! I mean, what's up with those Do Not Disturb signs that they ignore anyway? I think I resorted to putting a post-it note on my door one time because the maids kept knocking and then saying, "Oh, we thought you just forgot to take it off when you left." That 40 minutes of sleep that you get before the maid wakes you up is just so refreshing....
So I'm flying around in Washington Center area a couple days ago and I hear the following exchange on 121.5:
Airplane: Mayday, Mayday, N136SP has an engine failure. Request vectors to nearest airport.
ATC: N136SP this is XX approach. Your nearest airport is 12 O'clock, 5 miles. Squak 7700
Jackass #1: GUUAAARRRD
Jackass #2: You guys are on the Guard frequency. Find another frequency to chat.
Ok I will bite,
I will buy the beer while you explain how you know what animal sex in a brothel sounds like ,Panama.
Please tell us it was from a movie and not something you witnessed or worse smelled first nose
I used to fly an aircraft that had a direction finder for 121.50 so if they could do it years ago it should not be too hard to get a DF steer off 121.50 ,usually DF steers are done through FSS stations as they used to have the DF steer equipment. Not sure if it still works ,I will asked for one next flight just for giggles .
B208 wrote:The Automation generation. They're all bored out of their minds watching the autopilot fly; Fucking around on guard keeps them occupied. They'd do it on 126.7 except there's too much chatter from XXXXXXX students telling us their positions every 5 miles and asking us to advise if we're a conflict.
Blah blah blah. Generation this and that. Most of the U.S. Guys doing it in the states are grandpas.
B208 wrote:The Automation generation. They're all bored out of their minds watching the autopilot fly; Fucking around on guard keeps them occupied. They'd do it on 126.7 except there's too much chatter from XXXXXXX students telling us their positions every 5 miles and asking us to advise if we're a conflict.
Blah blah blah. Generation this and that. Most of the U.S. Guys doing it in the states are grandpas.
Aircraft 1: Oh hey is that Dave?
Aircraft 2: Yes it is! Mike is that you?
Aircraft 1: You bet it is. Hi Dave!
Aircraft 2: Hey Mike, how's the weather out there? (clear VFR day)
Aircraft 1: Pretty nice over here. What about you Dave?
Aircraft 2: Pretty nice too. Safe flight Mike
Aircraft 1: Catch ya later Dave
Dave and Mike took off from the same airport. Dave and Mike are going to see each other again at the same airport in less than two hours. What a surprise to run into each other in the air, in the common practice area, not even 10nm away from the home airport.
126.7 and all those practice area frequencies are not a freaking Starbucks. Keep that nonsense to yourself.
Sorry, done here now. Kept it to myself way too long...
B208 wrote:The Automation generation. They're all bored out of their minds watching the autopilot fly; Fucking around on guard keeps them occupied. They'd do it on 126.7 except there's too much chatter from XXXXXXX students telling us their positions every 5 miles and asking us to advise if we're a conflict.
Blah blah blah. Generation this and that. Most of the U.S. Guys doing it in the states are grandpas.
Not likely
The same level of maturity can be found over the ocean and there aren't many guys in their 20's out there. I fail to see what automation has to do with it either, the guy on the radio isn't flying and wasn't in the Constellation days.
Hockaloogie wrote:Maybe the guys doing this are not pilots at all, they're idiots on the ground with aviation band transmitters.
I know i've heard people on the ground chatting about non-aviation stuff using their aviation band transceivers. Maybe they're pilots on their non-flying days, and the transceivers are just convenient, portable, long-range transmitters.
I've heard two instructors chatting away presumably with students sitting next to them. This was on an MF in the okanagan mind you, but it was so bad that I couldn't even squeeze in my call as I was entering the zone to land. Very unprofessional. It's no wonder the younger pilots are doing it.
