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Mach 80

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How to sound like a new pilot:

1. Say lots of totally unecessary words on the radio like "...checkin' in with you..."

2. Tell departure control at airports like LAX and ATL that you are "..airborne.."

3. Say "....here we go" after acknowledging an ATC clearance.

4. Say " ....no problem" after acknowedging a simple heading assignment from ATC. Optional is "no worries".

5. Always ask ATC "whaddaya need?" after giving your requested Mach# or airspeed to him.....as if ATC wasn't going to tell you unless you asked.

6. ALWAYS inform ATC that you are "with them" because they wouldn't know unless you tell them.

7. Make a busy congested frequency even more congested by pausing after reading back the new frequency and then add some useless crap like "have a good day" resulting in a blocked transmission and making the controllers day less nice. Just read back the frequency and call sign and be done with it. No one needs to be told to "have a good day". What a stupid habit.

8. UAL needs to get their pilots a professional sounding microphone on their headsets. They all sound they're flying some Cessna with a loud prop and a bunch of background air noise.
 
Say "guard!" On guard frequency every time someone accidentally transmits there. Alternatively - sophomoric baiting of the guard police by acting like a child on guard freq.
 
But a lot of lifer's cannot get through their head to check in with the correct ATIS. These guys/gals have been flying for decades and still can't seem to have the ATIS when called for and then we have to endure the " do you have ATIS X?" query from ATC that ties up the freq......
 
What is more annoying is when you check in with atis x. The controller is never really listening and still asks if you have atis x.
 
I would love to fly with all the uptight radio nazis and bring a bag of coal with me, I'd retire before 40 from all the diamonds they produced....boom!
 
And by the way, OH is a LETTER, not a NUMBER. ZERO is a number.*




*The guy who taught me to fly retired from Chicago Approach Control after 27 years with the FAA. He said pilots using OH instead of ZERO was his number one pet peeve. Jusssssss sayin'
 
gutshotdraw said:
And by the way, OH is a LETTER, not a NUMBER. ZERO is a number.*




*The guy who taught me to fly retired from Chicago Approach Control after 27 years with the FAA. He said pilots using OH instead of ZERO was his number one pet peeve. Jusssssss sayin'
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Who cares
 
gutshotdraw said:
And by the way, OH is a LETTER, not a NUMBER. ZERO is a number.*




*The guy who taught me to fly retired from Chicago Approach Control after 27 years with the FAA. He said pilots using OH instead of ZERO was his number one pet peeve. Jusssssss sayin'
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Wrong!

OSCAR is a letter. :D
 
gutshotdraw said:
*The guy who taught me to fly retired from Chicago Approach Control after 27 years with the FAA. He said pilots using OH instead of ZERO was his number one pet peeve. Jusssssss sayin'
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Yeah, well I porked his wife. Jeeeessssss sayinnnn'
 
The pilots who care about someone else's radio calls, or zero/OH, or "checking in" are the ones who got beat up in high school or give pilots a bad name...

Some days I make proper sounding radio calls, some days probably not.. Go Fvck yourself if ya catch me on a lazy day..

A-B as easily as possible.. Up, cruise and down.. Pretty easy 99.999% of the time. 10k+ hours, no violations or even an ASAP... Don't make things complicated or worry about some random guy on a radio and you'll be ok
 
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BentOver said:
The pilots who care about someone else's radio calls, or zero/OH, or "checking in" are the ones who got beat up in high school or give pilots a bad name...

Some days I make proper sounding radio calls, some days probably not.. Go Fvck yourself if ya catch me on a lazy day..

A-B as easily as possible.. Up, cruise and down.. Pretty easy 99.999% of the time. 10k+ hours, no violations or even an ASAP... Don't make things complicated or worry about some random guy on a radio and you'll be ok
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Only exception to this are our British colleagues and pilots of Cathay Pacific Airlines. Over there, proper radio telephony is a MUST! And you should know your Morse code, too. Otherwise, planes would just fall out of the skies!
 
- I ALWAYS say "with you".

- I NEVER remember what the ATIS is so I omit it from the transmission knowing that ATC will ask if I have it and then I just say "yup". That's what I call utilizing my Tax Dollars... having a Civil Servant do that part of my job for me.

- When flying in Europe I always forget that 6000 feet is actually FL60. I'm an American and we won those World Wars so, I don't have to remember their radio phraseology. They're just lucky they ain't all speaking German.

- I've been doing this airline krap for damn near 30 years. At this point I could care less how I sound on the radio.


- Well, maybe I lied a bit in the last statement. Normally I speak in a whiny biatch voice but, I always lower it to a smooth radio-broadcaster baritone for ATC comms.

:)


YKW
 
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