ukatco_535
As a little bit of people management, why did you not say something along the lines of "XYZ approaching the CHASE hold".
Because I genuinely thought that once ATC say "vectors" it means just that!
I've been flying for 16 years commercially and this has only just come up. In other words whenever I was told "vectors" in the past I have never had to do anything else but follow ATC from there on. That's what I think most of my colleagues think too! Training has never encompassed things like these for us. So it's not clear, in fact it's outright misleading if "vectors" means go and hold
perhaps!
I did say to squidge as a reminder "should we fly towards base leg?" and we knew there was no one else there to affect immediately.
So to summarise, ATC procedures are not taught to pilots like ATC think. We often learn from each other as we "grow up". This was one of those days, when after 16 years something I thought was white, is in fact black!
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