Originally Posted by
meleagertoo
When one hears cringe-making hillbilly-style nonsense like "roll the trucks" coming from allegedly 'professional' pilots it make me wonder how they'd request, say, medical assistance. "Boogie the gurneys"? Perhaps with "Dood" or "man" added for good measure? Don't sneer, it's no more ridiculous than 'roll the trucks', in fact it's considerably more precise as gurneys are pieces of medical equipment while 'trucks' conveys only freight and sometimes leisure vehicles, perhaps 40 tons of string beans or maybe something testosterone-enhancing with a beer cooler, rifle rack and a lawn tractor in the back. 'Truck' conveys fire engines to very few people indeed overall.
It is generally agreed that aviation RT should only consist of words or phrases that convey a clear and specific meaning in the language in use, and 'roll the trucks' fails that test miserably.
How would these people call for police or security? "Rumble the goons"?
Other equally silly suggestions welcome.
Any controller at an international airport in the US would know what you mean by "roll the trucks", "declaring an emergency", "MAYDAY,MAYDAY", ASO. I have had way more issues the years I flew in the EU, as a European getting things from done ATC than I see here in the US. Yes, we have our own lingo here, but everyone understands it. When I ask for "EMT" or "LEO at the gate" it happens. No "dood" required. Have had several emergencies in the EU, mostly Spain. Always painful, always had to redeclare after a frequency change. Just had a medical emergency flying into LAS. I wasn't sure if we needed priority, as the situation was under control. ATC advised us they preferred to declare the emergency for us, got us on the ground fast, the "trucks" followed us to the gate, and the ambulance was waiting for us there. I did my flight training in the EU, am originally from there, and operated there for close to a decade, and have been in the US for the last 20. Up north everything was difficult because of organization, down south everything was difficult because of dis-organization. Look in the mirror, plenty of cringe from professional EU pilots. And that is just the ones that actually speak English, because you seem to forget the ones that barely can speak it.