Flight Following

Paul Tomblin wrote:
In a previous article, Matt Whiting said:

Which was exactly the context in which I gave the response about 121.5.
I can't help that Paul gave an answer that was completely out of context.


"Completely out of context"? What sort of drugs are you on? You
contradicted somebody who was saying that an advantage of flight following
is that you're already talking to somebody in the event of emergency to
say that the correct thing to do in an emergency is to "dial in 121.5".

Yes, here is the text to which I responded:

"In addition to the above, using Flight Following means that you are in
direct contact with ATC should you develop some sort of in-flight
emergency. You can therefore communicate that difficulty immediately
without having to search for the available and appropriate controlling
agency."

The suggestion is clearly made that if you AREN'T using flight following
then your alternative is to "search for the available and appropriate
conrolling agency" to call. My comment is that if you AREN'T using
flight following, you have a much better alternative to trying to look
up a frequency for the ATC in your area - and that is to dial up 121.5.

This really isn't that hard to follow.


Matt