Calling A Mayday: The Drill  Calling a MAYDAY is a complicated
cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skill set that relies on a
radio and the communication system, both human and hardware,
that gets the call for help.  At the second prop, the
firefighters quickly realized they were not getting out of
whatever had fallen on them, so few needed to be prompted to
call the MAYDAY. This time restricted movement challenged them
because the fence was all around them. Many had to remove the
radio from the pocket. Since they had performed the EIB skill
once before, they knew they could do it, so they just kept
working at it. As the firefighter's EIB skill proficiency level
increased, their LUNAR transmission was more accurate.  At the
third prop there was no restriction on them physically. Many
tried to break down the door; we did not let them do that. Most
still had to remove the radio to activate the EIB. They gave
LUNAR, but few reported that they were in a bathroom. Only one
needed to be prompted to call the MAYDA