Distress Calls
The Spoken word used three times to start a life-threatening emergency call
What is Mayday?
The Spoken word used three times for an urgent, but not life-threatening situation
What is Pan Pan?
Phrase to impose radio silence during distress
What is SEELONCE MAYDAY/DISTRESS?
The international aeronautical distress frequency in MHz
What is 121.5 MHz?
A device that automatically activates during a crash, and is capable of transmitting to 121.5MHz
What is an Emergency Locater Transmitter?
The exact order of what to say when initiating a distress call
What is MAYDAY (3x), THIS IS, call sign[norris] (3x)
The Signal word used for navigation alerts, like weather warnings or obstacles
What is Securitee?
The format for acknowledging a distress message.
What is MAYDAY, callsign[norris](3x), THIS IS callsign[dudenhoeffer], RECEIVED MAYDAY?
The message of second-highest priority
What is Urgency?
What the station does if the distress message is not acknowledged.
What is the reason for relaying the distress message if necessary, or repeat at intervals?
Three situations to have legibility for a mayday call
What are Fires, engine failures, and explosive decompressions?
Maximum time all stations must monitor after receiving a PAN PAN signal if no message follows
What is the three minutes for?
An example of how to cancel a MAYDAY using correct phraseology
What is MAYDAY, Hello all stations (3x), THIS IS callsign[dudenhoeffer], SEELONCE FEENEE, out?
When you are changing your frequency during emergency comms, it is something you always do.
When do you state which frequency you are changing to?
The sequence of information in a distress message
What is MAYDAY, call sign[norris], nature of distress, intentions, position/altitude/heading, POB/injuries, call sign[norris] again ?
Phrase that is used by another aircraft/station to relay a distress message
What is MAYDAY RELAY
Signal that covers urgent medical or security situations that do NOT need immediate rescue, not life-threatening in the moment.
Phrase that is used at the start of every message about immediate assistance required
What is Mayday?
The order of the three emergency communication types in priority
What is Distress, Urgency, Safety?
The conduct a station follows if it is not involved in the distress communications but hears the traffic.
Why stations remain silent, monitor frequency, and not interfere with the traffic when there is a distress?
Phrase that is used to end radio silence once a distress situation has been resolved
What is SEELONCE FEENEE?
Included in a PAN PAN message besides the urgency signal and call sign
Where are intentions, OVER, the problem, the positioning and info of aircraft?
The full sequence for imposing silence on a specific station during Mayday traffic
What is callsign of station[dudenhoeffer], THIS IS callsign[norris], SEELONCE MAYDAY, out?
What is MAYDAY, hello all stations (3x), THIS IS callsign[dudenhoeffer], TIME (GMT), SEELONCE FEENEE, OUT?
In distress, these are the five actions a pilot should take during/after a distress call
When do pilots transmit a distress call, send a distress message, listen for acknowledgement, provide updates, and activate the ELT if absolutely necessary?