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Old 24th Mar 2007, 08:51
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Presumably the correct phraseology is in whatever JSP318A is called these days?

The requirement for 'gear down' escaped many for years. Before then it was anything from '3 greens', '3 wheels', '4 greens', 'gear checked' depending on the aircraft type. It is a RAF requirement for the ATCO to confirm that the landing gear is down. So those C-130 people who still call 'gear checked' can expect to be asked to confirm that their landing gear is down when landing at Brize.

A while ago I submitted a CHIRP report after an ATCO cleared a heavy jet to line-up after I had been given clearnace to land and was at about 100 ft. The purple idiot at whatever IFS is called these days seemed more interested in castigating the controller than solving the cause - failure of the RAF to adopt conditional clearances ("after landing traffic, line up and wait")......

It is high time that the RAF, the minority user of UK airspace, aligned its basic RT to that used at every other aerodrome, but with the addition of specific military terms such as 'Initial' and 'Break'. The touch-and-go/roll/overshoot/go-around nonsense has been with the RAF for far too long!
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