................an IFR, RPT?
Why flight numbers these days? What happened to just giving rego's? Why do training organisations have to have company callsigns in 172's? I could understand if the callsigns were shorter but "C 17'62" takes longer than a 3 figure rego.
Why do Aircraft have to say now "Flight 20,16 an IFR, RPT Dash 8" rather than "Tango Quebec Oscar a Dash 8" are there many VFR and not RPT Dash's doing the rounds?
Why do IFR Aircraft in VFR conditions in CTAF's have to give IFR position reports to VFR Aircfraft? Why say to an inbound VFR Aircraft "All stations ........... Callsign XX is doing a sector 3 entry for a 05 NDB, DME approach not below 5,500, all stations ..........."
Why not just say "Callsign XX is over the field 5,500 tracking southwest"? is this just a training thing so the student can practice radio call's"? It only makes for more radio clutter when the other Aircraft has to ask for the positon again.
Last edited by Super Cecil; 17th Jan 2005 at 04:00.