Originally Posted by
hoover
People still listen to 121.5?
I'm assuming you are being facetious because your post are normally pretty well thought out. In my airlines world I am forced to listen to the 121.5 abuse because many times calls are missed because of language, accents or poor radios. Go NORDO for too long and you will get a visit from some small, very fast aircraft. It's happened several times in my time here at my current employer. There are places in the world we go were missing a few radio calls and then not being on GUARD can cause some pretty serious consequences. This is beyond the fact that legitimate emergency uses can be blocked by this garbage.
All this is to say that I too hate the childishness on 121.5 and it doesn't just happen in the US. I wish they would just use an AWAC that is on a training mission for a few days and burn one or two of these clowns. The problem would stop overnight if a few Bozos got thirty-day license suspensions for abusing the radio.