oh, and if you lower your voice to talk on the radio, you are a tool. With ATC, the only things you have to repeat with ATC are headings, altitudes, and altimeter settings. Tower talks to departure before they can release you, and ATC controllers talk to each other before they hand you over each one is passing the next your details.Īlong with the brevity concept, realize that there is only one time where you must readback controller instructions verbatim, and that is on ground control. Currently climbing through one thousand three hundred feet for three thousand feet." While that is correct you would have gotten out maybe the first line."Departure, N15555 passing 1300 feet" - 'nuff said.ĪTC knows who and where you are and where you're going before you talk to them, there's no need to give your entire flight plan every time you check in with a new controller. Correctly, "Atlanta Departure, N15555 is Just off of the McCollum Airport. On climb out and told to contact departure. Just as others have said, my feeling is that the "professional" way is how you'll be taught as an Air Force aviator, and how you'll be expected to operate once you're out in the real world. They may be "flying the line" and making a lot more than I am, but a loose act on the radio is nothing that is admirable from my standpoint. I have heard more than one airline captain trying to get cutesy with their radio calls, and I certainly don't think they sound cool. Do I really need to repeat word-for-word "Eagle 31, turn left 330, maintain 1,800 until established on the localizer, cleared ILS runway 26" when "Eagle 31, left 330, 1800 'till established, cleared the approach" will do? Of course this kind of brevity is okay.įreestyling it, though, is not needed, nor does it make anyone else - including the controllers and your fellow pilots on freq - think you're a pro. Now, I do understand being brief with clearance readbacks. No matter what military airframe you go to, someday you'll have to operate in one of these frenetic radio environments, and you'll be thankful for your fellow pilots having a tight comm act, just as they will be thankful if you do. If you think that the radios are busy in a big Class B terminal area, you should hear what Strike Prime sounds like out at Red Flag, or even better, what the AWACS freqs sounded like over Iraq during OIF. I look at controller communication much the same way. ![]() When we fight, subtle word differences (like "tally" vs "visual") mean drastically different things, so being correct and concise is very important. In the fighter community comm is a *very* high interest item and requires a lot of discipline on the part of the user. Some of this you will be taught at UPT, and some of it you will just pick up as you mature as a military pilot. Military radio communication, especially, uses brevity terminology to the max extent possible. ![]() The flying community has developed standard terminology so that we can say the precise thing we want to while simultaneously being concise and using as little air time as possible. ![]() When this comes to radio communication, it means you say what the FAA pilot/controller phraseology book says you do. Well, call me crazy, but in my opinion the definition of being an aviation professional means that you do things the way you're supposed to. Other than that, by the book.īut, it is imperrative for everyone's safety/knowledge that you make appropriate and consise radio calls because other folks are watching out for you, and questionable calls could lead to potential disasters. For instance, if it is someone telling me to switch freq's and the dude is extremely busy, I simply state "Sword 22 switching". The only time I make non-standard radio calls are the high density places where if you read back a whole clearance, you congest the radios for more important chatter (traffic advisories, etc) or on initial climb and you are both clearing, flying, and running checklists. ![]() Baseops hit it hard on the nail.do what you have been trained to do, and keep the slang to a minimum. Especially in Class B, and other high density traffic areas, no futal attempts to "feel like a corporate pilot" need be made. It is frowned upon as both Randy and Baseops pointed out. In the real world, "slang" isn't used as widely as you pointed out there Wannabe, it's just folks trying to "uncongest" the radio's.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |