Originally Posted by
Mike Flynn
Reminds me of an incident many years ago at Andrewsfield UK.
Called up airfield to say I was downwind and they replied “ Roger land at your own discretion” . Landed the helicopter on the dead side of the runway downwind and hovered across.
Got a lot of earache from the guy on the radio when entering the building but had to remind him he was an information service and not ATC. He thought I was a fixed wing😀
Don't know the history of radio services at Andrewsfield but nowadays it's A/G so saying 'land at your discretion' is verboten.
I used to be an ROCC examiner and I often 'pulled' people on that because CAP 452 specifically says you must not say it when carrying out A/G.