Just read my mailed copy yesterday. The pros seem to have some
incentive to avoid declaring (right or wrong). As a non-pro I intend to
declare whenever possibly needed.

Mayday is good. Help is good.

Abdication of PIC responsibility is bad.

Unnecesary death and destruction is real bad.

john smith wrote:
With all the discussion on emergencies, what word to use and when to use
it, the latest issue of The Blue Sheet is timely in its arrival.

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