Originally Posted by
piratepete
This is variously responded to with a call such as "terrain" "radio altimeter alive" or "twenty five hundred" or even "check" but not "checked".The reason for this is as always, situational awareness.Are you expecting terrain as this point? If not then this may be an early warning of something bad about to happen.
Like on Descent into Shiraz (OISS) at night and/or in cloud, when passing FL130 and you get the Radio Altimeter Callout. Weren't expecting that. Was not expecting the Captian to tell me the R.A must be broken so he will write it up at the end of the sector. The 11,000ft mountain we just passed over would not have had anything to do with it?
The standard callout is entirley dependant on YOUR company Standard Callouts. Its at the back of the SOP section in your FCOM, for those who have never seen it.