Why DO people […] bimble around and not tell people they’re there…?
Have a read of Brian Lecomber’s article in the most recent Flyer … he makes some useful points about ground station services and lookouts.
On the talking-to-people front, personally I think there are two issues:
1) You don’t have to talk to anybody outside controlled or regulated airspace, and there will be some people who through nervousness or bravado will choose to avoid the radio if they don’t have to use it. (And some who won’t talk even if they have a radio and are required to use it, but let’s leave that for the moment.)
2) If you do want to talk to somebody, it’s not always obvious who you should be talking to. Should you talk to the local airfield’s tower/info/air-ground frequency, or a bigger but further-away airfield’s approach frequency, or get a RIS from somewhere even further away?
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