As late as yesterday I was flying through France when I was given a whole lot of abuse by the controller. So what was my error??? Well, he called us three times and I missed them all... fair enough you think, but the frenchie was calling us in FRENCH. I dont speak a word french but ofcourse it was my fault for not understandning, what did he expect???
One full minuit of pay attention bla bla bla bla.
Ive noticed that some ATCOs are very quick to tell you off for the slightest mistake in a readback, or a missed call. Every call from an airplane is for the ATCO but only around 5% of the calls, if that much, on a frequencey is for yourself, so its naturally to miss some stuff every now and again, but still you have to feel like a criminal when you hear the sighs or raised voices.
maybe they are just their way of getting us back for "request this and request that"
duece