Odd Flying Habits

[EIR]

So, flight level four hundred is frowned upon? Maybe I fly overseas too much. I say decimal instead of point as well.

 

[🦈💜]

So, flight level four hundred is frowned upon? Maybe I fly overseas too much. I say decimal instead of point as well.

I will destroy you.

 

[av8tr1]

You guys would kill me for the number of times I have forgotten to use flight level above 18k.

 

[ahw01]

In EASAland people still have to take a radiotelephony exam, so they are probably more pedantic.

 

[CFI A&P]

Is this Canada? Decimal drives me nuts in EASAland, 3 syllables when 1 would do. Position and hold was better too...

I was riffing on the people who use like ... over-the-top standardized phraseology, and then drop a grotesque error in there like 'oh' instead of 'zero.'

-Fox

You should meet the king of ICAO phraseology at Boca Tower (KBCT). “Contact Miami Center on one tree two decimal two fife.”

“So you’ll want to go south on Main Street, then turn west onto Washington street...”.

My vocabulary is a mix of nautical and aviation terms such as wait one or say again.


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[NickH]

Unless you're from Florida, then it's perfectly acceptable to go 5 under in the left lane.

There ain't no cure...

But the people we can influence are those who drive in the middle lane(s), or who think keep right only applies on the highways.

 

[Roger Roger]

In EASAland people still have to take a radiotelephony exam, so they are probably more pedantic.

I’m fairly certain that European bureaucrats make the level of pedanticity within the FAA look like amateur hour.

 

[milleR]

There are no “negative” numbers, if it’s below zero it’s “minus”.

 

[ArcherII]

"Stand-by 1" to the food delivery on the phone is my classic.

 

[Richman]

I’m fairly certain that European bureaucrats make the level of pedanticity within the FAA look like amateur hour.

That whole area is populated by people enraptured by a game with no score and a clock that runs backwards. Why would you expect otherwise?

 

[Deleted member 27505]

0 = zero and O = oh. There are no substitutes.

That's not even a flying thing. Just clear thinking and good sense.

 

[Deleted member 27505]

I’m fairly certain that European bureaucrats make the level of pedanticity within the FAA look like amateur hour.

"Pedantry"?? Oh, schnnnnap!

 

[denverpilot]

I light piles of cash on fire in the back yard when I can’t go flying. Same difference.

 

[denverpilot]

"Stand-by 1" to the food delivery on the phone is my classic.

My dogs know “stand by”. Came from more than just aviation though, since I’ve also done professional dispatch work.

 

[Rosstafari]

Finished plenty of phone calls, and exchanges at drive thrus, with my operating initials.

 

[NickH]

0 = zero and O = oh. There are no substitutes.

Can I have a valid exemption for 'Naught'?

 

[milleR]

Can I have a valid exemption for 'Naught'?

‘Aught gets a pass but if I accept “naught” then next thing I know “zed”’is in the vernacular and the entire system comes apart.

 

[fholbert]

Finished plenty of phone calls, and exchanges at drive thrus, with my operating initials.

Guilty here.

 

[NickH]

‘Aught gets a pass but if I accept “naught” then next thing I know “zed”’is in the vernacular and the entire system comes apart.

You're discriminating against my National Origin. I'm a protected class, I'll have you know. And we invented the bloody language...

 

[Mike Wise]

I've reached for the pen. I spend 90% of my time instructing in DA20's DA40's and yet I still find myself reaching for the imaginary gear handle on final.