Originally Posted by
Eck4Life
Funny thing. I had a rapid decompression and squawked 7700 per company procedures after verbally declaring an emergency. ATC promptly told me to return to my previous IFF. Maybe it depends who's watching the scope or who's looking over their shoulder...
To which your response was "sorry, can't remember it."
When I was flight instructing, I had a transmitter get stuck opening and closing rapidly which blanked out all the radios despite efforts to keep it from doing so- turned out to be the student's defective set of headphones. I got to squawk 7600, waggle the wings, and get light gun signals!