Originally Posted by
brigadeaviator
Used it a couple of times to help out planes that didn’t get the handoff and no reception. Friends at approach and center would tell me that people don’t realize the entire facility has to hear the bickering over the speakers. Worst was when people were looking for a missing aircraft and kept asking for people to be quiet on the frequency... still didn’t stop people from acting like morons.
The worst was hearing an airplane in distress. Other aircraft where calling him and trying to relay to center. Meanwhile the Guard police, who couldn’t hear both sides of the conversation, were jumping in, “Yur on Guard!!” and cutting out the transmissions. Then idiots would jump in with “meow”. All with an emergency going on.