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Actually the phrase is "pan-pan" repeated three times:
"Pan-pan pan-pan pan-pan"
Lucky I've never needed to do a Mayday or a Pan-Pan...
Did get to be practiced on by the airport fire department once, they chased me down the runway, (I stopped on runway, shut down) they sprayed water (over the top) of my Cherokee. And "Extracted" me from the cockpit. (They open'ed the door).
ATC had asked me when I was in the pattern on my final landing if the Airport Fire Departmental could do a practice run on me. Not sure what the people in the Passenger terminal must have been thinking with this going on the runway in front of them.
ATC Might ask you to IDENT (Push a button on the transponder) that make your Plane Blip/Tag Show up Bolder on their screen.
If you can hear them, they will ask your push the IDENT button, So they know they can talk to you, but you can't talk to them.
So they can issue you instructions, and you can Acknowledge them by pushing the button.
Otherwise they will expect you to follow your flight plan, (But odds are they will clear the air space around you anyway).
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