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Mach,
I am one of the least retentive people in this business ....
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?
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."
My biggest beef: anybody who adds an extraneous "s" to their callsign. Delta and USAir guys: you know who you are.
Nope, it's "USAir". Google airline callsigns for reference.For some reason I thought US's official call sign was "US Airways," which can sound lot like "US Air's." Confirm?
Oddly enough, this doesn't bother me.gangdev said:I always get a kick out of "Delter"....
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.
Nope, it's "USAir".