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Old 15th May 2018, 03:50
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Maisk Rotum
 
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This was bound to happen

Having flown for both major carriers in Korea for a substantial time I can say that the " clear left/right " should just be a recording every time the aircraft senses a lateral acceleration and not a human callout.

They are too busy heads down looking at the ND giving verbalized readouts of your groundspeed as you taxi.

No-one looks out the window when you taxi.

This ridiculous scenario was borne out of the 'leaders' desire to fix a spate of docking/parking/rolling incidents. The solution? Invent yet another policy and "standard callout" .

Don't believe me? Here is what it sounds like;
PM; "Appoaching gater ...31, righter turn, grounder speeder ..9. A330, speeder 7... 6.. 5.. 4...4...3...2...2
..2.1. Approaching stoper. Steer lefter. Speeder..1. Turn righter. STOPer"
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