Originally Posted by
Pugilistic Animus
Just say: MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY we're declaring an emergency!
abstract, out of the box thinking.
long ago, far far away, around a bar.
FO coming up to command, around the table with a bunch of senior standards and training captains. Over a beer, bright FO relates a story about his deciding not to do SOP's following the beer-soaked topic.
Mangler standards holding his beer replies, "noted..., and what other standard procedures and rules do you deliberately disregard?"
SOP's and standard phraseology are not made to make your life more difficult, they are there to ensure that lessons hard-learned in the past do not get played out again needlessly. Standard phraseology may be the only thing going when you encounter a major language gap, like a Californian talking to JFK Approach, or anyone talking to SYD.
IT is a "head of the pin" issue at the same time, but confusion at high TAS tends to get more entertaining than it needs to be, and a multilingual environment doesn't make it much easier, like the Marines talking to the Airforce.