Would think it's common sense but...

Crop Duster said:
I imagine they'd appreciate that brevity. It sure beats:
"Approach, this is Cessna N12345. We'd like to do the, ah, ILS One, er the ILS One, ah Right, from ... ah, the ILS One Right to a low miss. Then, ahh, .... then head out for vectors to the GPS Two..., ah, the GPS RNAV Two Seven full procedure."
Sometimes I'm surprised it was Postal workers who went postal and not ATC.
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You just learn to ignore it, not the request but the fact that they hardly know better. Like when a vfr guy calls up and says “kilo” before they say the 3 letters we actually care about
 
thesoonerkid said:
You just learn to ignore it, not the request but the fact that they hardly know better. Like when a vfr guy calls up and says “kilo” before they say the 3 letters we actually care about
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I always find this comical. Unless you're a helo, I think it would be very difficult to land at a VOR.
 
thesoonerkid said:
You just learn to ignore it, not the request but the fact that they hardly know better. Like when a vfr guy calls up and says “kilo” before they say the 3 letters we actually care about
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I hate it more when they just say the name of the airport and not the identifier.
 
EIR said:
I always find this comical. Unless you're a helo, I think it would be very difficult to land at a VOR.
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I had a pilot request, "headed towards Galveston, would like flight following to VUH." (Scholes VOR)

NovemberEcho said:
I hate it more when they just say the name of the airport and not the identifier.
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If it's some small airport like 200 miles away, I agree with you. But I've seen controllers ask for the 3-letter ID for common local airports that are within 50 miles. And when I'm flying I've had controllers ask me for airport IDs of ridiculous easy airports.
 
Identifiers can sometimes be tricky. There are times when specificity is required. To wit, the not quite co-located VOR with the same name as the airport. And then you get "cleared direct XYZ".

Otherwise, I'm cool with pretty much anything and just try to dance to the vibe the controller is spinning as long as the beat is true. Some controllers roll easy with real names in English, some sound like they just came out of training in which the beatings would continue until morale improved. Some sound like they just spent the night fighting with the significant other and haven't yet had enough coffee. But I get all that. 'Cause, you know, from time to time, I too have danced all those steps.

The only ones for whom I lose empathy are the ones who just can not enunciate their words, and simultaneously lack the awareness to realize that what they are saying is completely incomprehensible to others. So they keep the marbles in their craw and keep repeating themselves. That's just doing the same thing over and over hoping for different results. And, yeah, that pisses me off
 
Crop Duster said:
The only ones for whom I lose empathy are the ones who just can not enunciate their words, and simultaneously lack the awareness to realize that what they are saying is completely incomprehensible to others.
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This is why I sound like a robot on the radio, it stops my mumble. I tend to mumble a lot off the radio because of my nose constantly being plugged from the five inch thick layer of dust covering everything in the TRACON.

One time though I couldn't figure out why y'all couldn't understand me, it was ticking me off. Found out months of beard oil filled in the boom on my headset... So now I make sure my boom isn't in my beard lol
 
Ozelot said:
This is why I sound like a robot on the radio, it stops my mumble. I tend to mumble a lot off the radio because of my nose constantly being plugged from the five inch thick layer of dust covering everything in the TRACON.

One time though I couldn't figure out why y'all couldn't understand me, it was ticking me off. Found out months of beard oil filled in the boom on my headset... So now I make sure my boom isn't in my beard lol
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At least make sure the mic isn’t in the coffee position. This applies to controllers and pilots both.
 
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