Originally Posted by
PukinDog
Responding to her instruction with a simple "Unable" followed by an answer to her question would be considered good, standard RT, however. That didn't happen.
JFK- “speedbird 15k heavy, 180 or greater to 5dme”
BAW- “ I cant do that ma’am, I can do 160 or greater until 5”
”I can’t do that” sounds a lot like “unable” to me when it comes to plain English.
what he said he could do came BEFORE she questioned him.
Yes I do agree that unable would have been a better choice of words, however the USofA isn’t particularly standard with the phraseology and do use a lot of plain English instead, so I’d imagine “I can’t do that” should get the point across the same.
I asked before but nobody answered, if BAW just said “unable” and nothing else, would he still have been vectored off the approach or would he have been allowed to continue? But, without a crystal ball I doubt we will know the real answer there.