RT; Callsign discipline
Please, please, please, pretty please with sugar on top, etc could everyone please use your full callsign in transmissions when vital instructions are given.
I know that this topic hits the boards regularly, but I'm losing my sense of humour, especially with the sheer number of occasions recently when frequency change instructions have been met with a "Thanks, goodbye" response. All very cheery, but not what I want to hear. I have no way of knowing who's taken the call and even when I ask for the callsign readback, the offender has gone. It's led to a number of incidents that had the potential to really bite back.
Sometimes, we have upwards of 15 of one operators aircraft on one sector freq alone so it becomes vitally important that the right aircraft respond in a manner in which we are assured that the right guy's got the right information.
If training captains could send a little missive to all and sundry as a reminder, it will hopefully save a red face, or worse, in the future. Thanking you all in advance for your friendly cooperation; it only takes a liitle discipline and I'd equally be pleased if you remind some of my fellow ATCOs , including me, to sharpen up on sloppy comms.