On the roll???

[BobbyB]

context is everything....

Tower: xxx you are cleared for takeoff
XXX: Cleared for takeoff
Tower: xxx no delay, traffic on a 3 mile final
XXX: (with you)On the roll

What's the problem?

 

[Laughing_Jakal]

Dead giveaway

Mach,
I am one of the least retentive people in this business ....

I have found when a pilot feels obligated to tell you how laid-back he is, or how he is not "uptight"......he usually is.

 

[Laughing_Jakal]

This poor bastard on the tug knows like three words of English, and just heard none of them. Chaos ensues. Why can't people a) use fewer words, and b) speak them slower, when dealing with folks who don't speak English as their mother tongue?

Yeah! and if they still don't understand, you can speak it even LOUDER!

 

[DH106]

Somebody wrote, "Over the years, radio comm has deteriorated."

Another guy wrote, "Who cares."

The reason you should care is because lax radio comm has caused hundreds of people to die. Someone else in this post made that point.

This is also why people continue to die in the medical industry, needlessly. The medical industry is decades behind airline safety progress, and they're just now starting to learn that, well, professionalism is actually important.

There is NO excuse for lax communications in our industry. If you're a professional, then act like it. Anyone who's trying to be "cool" on the radio is a f***-ing idiot. Nothing else. It has nothing to do with starching one's underwear, either.

If you want to say, "on the roll," then precede it with proper phraseology: "cleared for takeoff, airline 123, on the roll."

 

[satpak77]

Somebody wrote, "Over the years, radio comm has deteriorated."

Another guy wrote, "Who cares."

The reason you should care is because lax radio comm has caused hundreds of people to die. Someone else in this post made that point.

This is also why people continue to die in the medical industry, needlessly. The medical industry is decades behind airline safety progress, and they're just now starting to learn that, well, professionalism is actually important.

There is NO excuse for lax communications in our industry. If you're a professional, then act like it. Anyone who's trying to be "cool" on the radio is a f***-ing idiot. Nothing else. It has nothing to do with starching one's underwear, either.

If you want to say, "on the roll," then precede it with proper phraseology: "cleared for takeoff, airline 123, on the roll."

nice sermon but we don't care what some disgruntled whiner (first poster) has to say

 

[JohnnyP]

one more thing

One more thing I hate than someone saying "on the roll"---

Sweaty grease smudges on my sunglasses!!!!!

Absolutely can't stand that!!!!!

The easy way to pick me out in a crowd, ill be the one whipping out my sunglass towel every 4 or 5 minutes to clear the lenses up.

Everyone is a little OCD about something I suppose.

 

[gangdev]

My biggest beef: anybody who adds an extraneous "s" to their callsign. Delta and USAir guys: you know who you are.

I always get a kick out of "Delter"....
Delter 15 heavy.....

 

[TWA Dude]

For some reason I thought US's official call sign was "US Airways," which can sound lot like "US Air's." Confirm?

Nope, it's "USAir". Google airline callsigns for reference.

I always get a kick out of "Delter"....

Oddly enough, this doesn't bother me.

 

[HelloNewman]

It is truly a bit sad where proper radio technique has gone. Apparently so far down that it is simply accepted and anyone who points it out is lambasted.

Pretty much now go take your viagra and goto bed old man! There are more things to worry about on days off than stupid anal radio techniques. If you don't get violated your doing something right.

It's not that we don't know all those anal little things. It's that we just don't care. At every airline I have worked for I have heard people use on the roll. So what?

 

[Booker]

Nope, it's "USAir".

Thanks for the clarification.

On a lighter note, I've started replying "ten-four" as preparation for my upcoming truck driving gig.