Originally Posted by bedder believeit
this doesn't neccessarily apply to places like the UK etc,
Sadly, you'd better believe it - it does apply in the UK and I suspect given the current changes to the training regime that this situation will become the norm here also.
One useful piece of advice I found particularly amusing as a trainee was that "Pilots are like dogs - if they sense fear in your voice, you've had it!"
Don't quite know how to put that principle to effect via CPDLC however
