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HEATHROW DIRECTOR
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Berkshire, UK
Age: 65
Posts: 4,605
You might like to know that back in the late 60s pilots flying for a small British airline called BOAC used to read back absolutely everything so it's hardly new!!
Don't I know it. I was flying a DC3 on radio navigation aid calibration duties around Sydney airport in the early Seventies. BOAC or was it BA by then, arrived and in that affected drawled manner used by some members of the Royal Family, proceeded to read every bloody word of ATC transmissions back much to the annoyance of all aircraft on the frequency.
When someone jacked up and had a go at this idiot, he replied loftily that it was a requirement to read back all ATC transmissions. After this aircraft left tower frequency for ground frequency, bugger me he read back everything all over again. Highly unprofessional and distracting to others captive audience to his blathering..