Originally Posted by
LeadSled
After all, amongst the reasons why ICAO standard phraseology was adopted almost 20 years ago (or was it longer), was a couple of really serious near misses due to non-standard Australian usage confusing crews from the rest of the world, who were not familiar with the strange mutations of the Aviation Galapagos that is Australia.
And yet the worlds worst aviation disaster, caused in part due to non-standard phraseology, didn’t have an ocker within cooee.