Originally Posted by
Capn Rex Havoc
Read back a clearance to Darwin ATC - and committed the heinous crime of omitting the read back “CLIMB VIA”.
My other non Aussie crew members groaned and asked me if she was for real? I had to embarrassingly say ‘Yes, they are rather anal here.”
Your crew would have had kittens inbound when you didn't report POB on first contact....
But you can't have it both ways. I listen to the loose ATC in the US and think there's an accident waiting to happen.
If you missed a constraint on climb and didn't read back the CLIMB VIA the DN controller would be in trouble. That said, if there's no constraint...