Icarus,
Has anyone noticed the trend of some plonkers to change the tense of their call eg "Bugsmasher Delta Oscar Golf joins downwind runway 27..." or " Deathtrap Papah India Golf enters and backtracks runway three zero..."
You have got it in one, now I was never very good at english when I was in school, but of all the pedantic things in aviation, this is my pet hate too!! What's even more frightening is these guy's think that they are using the correct phraseology.
I think the answer is easy, speak proper English, use AIP phraseology and being from a civilised society, I think it's perfectly acceptable to say "gidday" or "good bye" provided your not clogging up the frequency. Just use some of that judgement, that we pilot's are allegedly famous for.
Cheers, HH.
