ASA: "Call sign only" in ATL?

[shamrock]

Folks, is it really that hard to understand that when a controller tells you "call sign only", he just might mean "call sign only"?

I realize that the reduction of Freedom flying in Atlanta requires an extra effort from us all to fill the "bonehead moment" quota, but when ASA makes up 7 out of 10 of the crews that read back "cross 27L, join Mike (Lima), point 75" after the controller says "call sign only" it makes the rest of us look and sound like idiots. Trust me, I don't need any help making an idiot out of myself and my crew (just ask Stifler or Hoser) so listen up dammit!

 

[Salukipilot4590]

What he said!

 

[Stifler's Mom]

I agree on both accounts. You being a bonehead, and the "call sign only" requests.:nuts:

 

[TOOL CRIB]

Since we're on rant mode in this thread...

Seriously people, why is that, on the CRJ, every time we make any sort of heading change be it only 2 degrees, that one must center the heading bug EVERY TIME. Some people are addicted to that, I think there's nicotine hidden in that heading select knob somewhere...

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Since we're on rant mode in this thread...

Seriously people, why is that, on the CRJ, every time we make any sort of heading change be it only 2 degrees, that one must center the heading bug EVERY TIME. Some people are addicted to that, I think there's nicotine hidden in that heading select knob somewhere...

HA HA HA. John Anderson did that all the time. After flying with him and realizing he was mostly all bark, I'd reach up and move the heading knob a few degrees off center when he wasn't looking just to mess with him.

It must be some form of OCD....and now I find myself doing that too.

 

[Oakum_Boy]

We could go on for years with this...

 

[jstyle13]

oh yea...and hang up the company David Clark headsets you leave out for the next crew when you leave the airplane. I'm good....I've got some Telex's I use.

 

[Flybywire44]

The best is when a mainline flight screws it up.

Shamrock, we all slip up at some point!

 

[DrewBlows]

Since we're on rant mode in this thread...

Seriously people, why is that, on the CRJ, every time we make any sort of heading change be it only 2 degrees, that one must center the heading bug EVERY TIME. Some people are addicted to that, I think there's nicotine hidden in that heading select knob somewhere...

What else do you have to do? Centering the bug is good for a full 30 seconds of work over the course of a 1.5 hour flight. That's 30 seconds I don't have to stare aimlessly out the window.

 

[atl pilot]

I think for the most part, you (ASA) does really well with what we ask. I do not think ASA is guilty of overdoing the "call sign only" requests. In fact, I think you guys probably do it better than DAL and TRS! Thanks for the coorperation!

And if any of you are three ATR crews who were in the long departure line on 26L last night (with the lightening show all around us), and who volunteered to take 11,000 as a final so I could turn you out of the way for the jet traffic - thanks a bunch for the teamwork!! It really helped the flow move more efficiently.

 

[JoeMerchant]

And if any of you are three ATR crews who were in the long departure line on 26L last night (with the lightening show all around us), and who volunteered to take 11,000 as a final so I could turn you out of the way for the jet traffic - thanks a bunch for the teamwork!! It really helped the flow move more efficiently.

I actually prefer that when there is convective activity....We don't burn much more by staying low and it's actually easier to get around the weather down low.....

I guess 4000 as a final to DHN isn't going to work when I have to go to the RJ...Oh well....

By the way would you guys prefer we put that little bug in the ear of the Clearance Delivery folks before we get out there?

 

[ATR-DRIVR]

I used to ask clearance for 4000 up to CHA all the time! Satellite dept just gave us own nav and I just flew up 75, jogged a bit right at Hwy 92, flashed the ldg lights at my kids in the yard and pressed on!!!
Worked fine and got out of the way in a hurry especially if gnd took us off 8L or 26R! Sucked to have to go to the RJ.....

 

[wms]

Since we're on rant mode in this thread...

Seriously people, why is that, on the CRJ, every time we make any sort of heading change be it only 2 degrees, that one must center the heading bug EVERY TIME. Some people are addicted to that, I think there's nicotine hidden in that heading select knob somewhere...

Nothing else to do.

 

[CFI2766]

And if any of you are three ATR crews who were in the long departure line on 26L last night (with the lightening show all around us), and who volunteered to take 11,000 as a final so I could turn you out of the way for the jet traffic - thanks a bunch for the teamwork!! It really helped the flow move more efficiently.[/quote]

Yup, that was me, in 4707, the first ATR to go. The lightning show was getting closer by the second, I didn't want to get stuck. There was a small cell just over downtown when we left, no worries though.

Gonna second a question already asked, but is there any way to get this request offered/granted on a more regular basis? Ask Clearance? The fuel burn usually isn't a problem, and I'm probably not gonna climb over a good sized cell in the ATR. Flights to MGM, CHA, and AVL are all good candidates for this.

 

[N1VIBS]

Since we're on rant mode in this thread...

Seriously people, why is that, on the CRJ, every time we make any sort of heading change be it only 2 degrees, that one must center the heading bug EVERY TIME. Some people are addicted to that, I think there's nicotine hidden in that heading select knob somewhere...

You're joking right? Thats the biggest thing you have to complain about??