ATCO J30
Re lack of Brevity on your stations VHF
heres a bit of a transcript from the other day.
Us. 'ABC123 taxi'
BRS Twr 'ABC 123 taxi G2' ok so far
Us. 'ABC123 G2' ie may we proceed?
Twr. 'pass your msg'
Us 'ABC 123 just to let you know we are at G2'
Twr 'Roger hold at G2' Which is what we are doing!
Us ' Hold at G2' have to read back an instruction.
Twr 'ABC 123 taxi G1'
Us ' ABC 123 taxi to G1'. ok
Twr 'ABC 123 taxi to G1, hold short of the runway. after departure its standard noise then a left turn to WOTAN'
Us (read it back)
ATCO can you spot any superflous RT in this? I think this is the sort of waffle your fo was on about!
I sympatise with point b) in your post and I'm sure thats why you do a lot of it but......... brevity is important in rt. It's not a luxury. transmissions must be kept as short as possible!
In the horrible mid air twixt that DHL and the -154 it was not possible for the DHL crew to get out their vital 'TCAS descent' call due to the freq being busy. Had they been able to get the call out the accident may have been avoided.
Keep it brief. If it dont need saying.... Don't say it!