Originally Posted by IO540
Is the pilot allowed to say "standby"? I am curious; got a bollocking for it from an instructor once.
?? - if the controller had just asked you for, say, your ETA at some point you weren't expecting to be asked about, and you had to take a few seconds to work out the answer, would your instructor had preferred you to just remain silent and not answer the call, or to reply with "um er just a minute" thus tying up the frequency whilst you worked it out??