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Air Traffic Monitoring => Feed Setup Pictures => Topic started by: Vitor De Simone on August 05, 2013, 10:14:26 PM
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I would like to have your answers the best answer will win a iphone 5 32g.
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Hee hee, the difference is between the two is how you annunciate it on the radio.
Pan Pan = urgency
May day = emergency
I'll pass on the phone, I've got the 64G flavor :-D
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Here is what Wikipedia says....
"Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice procedure radio communications."
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"Pan-pan indicates an urgent situation of a lower order than a "grave and imminent threat requiring immediate assistance", such as a mechanical breakdown or a medical problem."
from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday_(distress_signal)
so, basically, as beechsundowner said, one is urgency, the other is an emergency.
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Well May Day is pronounced like you think it would be, like the month and day. Pan Pan is not how you would think -- like the pots and pans in your kitchen -- but more like Pawn Pawn -- with the "a" as in father.
I always thought it was like the Little Caesar commercials for their pan pizza until I heard the Coast Guard transmit it. :-)
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Pan Pan - "There is a chance we are going to die"
Mayday - "We're dead"
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Pan Pan - "There is a chance we are going to die"
Mayday - "We're dead"
That about sums it up :-D