A quick P.S. for expedite climb...
The standard route from BARLU to East Midlands goes as follows :
BARLU-FAWBO-KATHY-MID-OCK-HEMEL-WELIN-SAPCO
Reading that lot out, and getting a correct readback as we are REQUIRED to do, on busy frequency is a real challenge for all invloved, pilots and controllers alike.
I bet a colleague once that the next pilot I read the above spiel out to would get it wrong. I won. In a tired voice he just replied "Standard arrival East Mids"
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I have a lot of sympathy, but as yet we aren't allowed to abbreviate the routes very much and we are supposed to issue at least the first part of the route on first ctc with London. Aeroplanes have been known to set off in completely unexpected directions, much to everyones embarrassment, hence the confirmation of route cleared.
Rgds BEX