Hi everybody!
I start to be really annoyed by those too many and far too early frequency changes. (or late, if inbound, depends)
Especially when this happens as soon as we're hardly airborned, outbounding a busy airport, and going through the normal and heavy workloaded TO/departure sequence. (The reverse way inbound!)
Too many times I got this one:
"Airline ZZZ change with APT departure freq 12x,xxx, bye!"
Each time, I acknowledged and called the new one (I know, I'm on duty):
"Good morning, we're airline ZZZ, flying yyy departure, climbing up to FL XXX."
My favorite answer has always been:
"Good morning airline ZZZ, climb FL X'X'X', and
change (again
) with 12x,xxx, bye!"
Time spent on the freq,
45" maybe?
Average: 4 freq swap
En route, the same, I oftenly change and stay on freq no more than 1'
So, all of above leads me to those questions:
Am I getting too old ?
Do I need to rest ?
Should I fly long haul ?
How useful is that ?
Or
do you usually experience the same ?
And......... any comment about that ?
Many thanks for answers.......