"Their intelligence network is uncanny and up to now they have kept one step ahead of us." Mohan Dhamrait, a Radiocommunications Agency investigator, speaking about the LPWS. A genuine published quotation
We don't, didn't and never have had an intelligence network, staying one step ahead of a DTI man didn't require any great skill and judgment!

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LPWS Honourary Membership October 2012

Airline pilots, long regarded as sensible upstanding people, so much so that they get serious discounts on their car insurance etc. and are seemingly able to walk into high earning jobs, now seem to be not that sensible after all!

 

Expletive-ridden Insults

Airline pilots are being investigated after emergency radio channels were jammed with expletive-ridden insults.The abuse was aimed at the RAF’s Distress and Diversion (D&D) Unit, the ‘999 service’ for airmen which responds to mayday calls.The Civil Aviation Authority is attempting to identify the offending pilots.

"There have been comments with plenty of expletives," an RAF source said. "I’m sure these pilots wouldn’t want an emergency line tied up with that sort of infantile chat if they were trying to send a mayday message." "There have also been reports of music being played down the emergency channels."
Another RAF source added: "One German* pilot used to belch over the microphone every day at the same time, which he found amusing."
London-based Civil Aviation Authority is investigating pilots who block the UK's emergency airline "Using our equipment we tracked him and on the third day his transmission was met with the response: “This is London centre. If you continue to abuse this frequency in such a manner then you will be reported.”

The CAA said: "We are investigating allegations of the misuse of the frequency and if we can identify the planes involved we will contact the airline operators and ask them to take action."  An LPWS spokesman declined to comment.

* We are interested to know the difference between a German belch, and any other! Full story HERE

It has come to our attention that our theme tune, The Laughing Policeman (Billie Grey), sung by Charles Penrose, may be the subject of copyright infringement, and what may well be one of the earliest examples!
We have been sent a recording of The Laughing Song sung by George W Johnson (An American negro) from a wax cylinder recorded between 1894 & 1898, which we believe predates The Laughing Policeman by some 25+ years!
Whilst not exactly the same song, it is remarkably similar to such an extent that it can barely be a coincidence.

George W Johnson (Circa.1898) - The Laughing Song by The Loanaranger

Charles Penrose - LPWS Theme Tune by The Loanaranger

The complete NOT! The Penrose Gazette Vol.1 Issue 2 now available for download as a  PDF file HERE

Almost the complete Penrose Gazette Vol.5 Issue 12 now available for download as a  PDF file HERE

Squeak International Explosive Christmas Edition now available for download as a  PDF file HERE

Squeak International Best Of 1994 now available for download as a  PDF file HERE

Buffoon now available for download as a  PDF file HERE

For those few people out there without a free copy of Adobe PDF Reader, download it free HERE

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