wrote:
Y'know, I get a kick out of this statement...although I've flown
in the busuness end of aircraft for 25-26 years while logging
13,000 hours of flying time, I've NEVER heard any pilot say
"Mayday" on air ever, not once in all that time!

Well, you can't hear everything! :-)

I've declared mayday twice, got all the help I needed.
I'm here to say it works, and I will use it again, at need.

It is troublesome when otherwise intelligent persons say, "It never
happened to me, so it can't happen to anyone anywhere in the world."
That's just bad logic. I wonder what all the experience has taught him.