"ABC123 report
YOUR heading to London...."
With a big emphasis on "your". I mean seriously, who else's heading is the pilot going to report?
"ABC123 turn left 10 degrees and report the new heading"
As opposed to the old heading?
"ABC123 stop climb initially FL90"
Usually said when the controller has made a mistake or the traffic scenario changes and needs to stop the aircraft off. I can see the logic of using "initially" when aircraft are in the region of cruise levels and get stopped off after being cleared to cruise but in a TMA environment? It sounds silly.
Or my pet hate...
"ABC123 can you just stop your climb FL90 please?"
Again, said when the controller has cocked up. As if they ask nicely it won't look so bad. Trainees have a habit of doing this. I've seen the point hammered home in reports where "[Trainees name], can you just do the job properly and use standard phraseology please?" has been written
And I witnessed a trainee perform the following exchange which made me cringe.
"Thai XXX, expect a couple of spins at XYZ, bring back the speed now"
"Say again"
"Thai XXX expect a couple of spins at XYZ bring back your speed"
"Thai XXX not understand, say again"
Trainee now getting a bit irate... "Thai XXX, bring back the speed, you're going to hold!!"
Long pause....
I take the RT.
"Thai XXX hold at XYZ, reduce to minimum clean speed"
"Hold at XYZ reduce minimum clean, Thai XXX"
I think it got the point across? The trouble is that the trainee had been using the same phraseology for well over 100 hours of training and nobody had picked him/her up on it!
