Originally Posted by
CVividasku
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 ?
Yes of course. Obviously a PM who is busy talking to ATC is not incapacitated. Fitting SOP calls around other high priority tasks is expected.