Originally Posted by
AerocatS2A
if only to make sure you are all in the loop and no one has just had a brain bleed and started drooling. .
What is the chance that your colleague is having a stroke ? Close to zero.
To me, it sounds like a bad excuse to enforce an invading discipline. If you're having an important chat with ATC, the "1000 to go" is clearly secondary, I'm sure you would agree with that ?