RT; Callsign discipline

[W.O.Bentley]

hey guys and girls, sorry in advance for any spelling errors.....


thanks to those of you who have shown their support to atc for our work done and a HUGE thanks to those who follow ICAO r/t and help us have a bit more thinking time instead of wasting time chasing up poor r/t.


to those who believe that atc(not just those from down under) getting correct readbacks is anal, is it also considered anal if you wait till the correct speeds to pull flaps/landing gear etc or just following sop's?


i would have thought that reading back the correct instruction with correct callsign would have been as big a safety issue as ensuring you aren't doing 300kts ias while trying to lower the landing gear. think i'm joking? UAE967 4 a/c below UAE97 in the stack a couple of weeks ago. every f ing tranmission given to UAE967 was either read back by both a/c or just by UAE97 including decent. safe as houses eh??

thanks to the other 3 uae a/c who reamed him out on "the numbers". he seemed to get the idea in the end.

so to all those g&g at the pointy end of the tube, sort out the folks who don't read this thread/give a f@$$ and get them to use std ICAO r/t and we will try to do the same with our buddies on the ground.