Button-holders, whilst quite rare, are acutely irritating. When is someone in the training department of a Scottish regional airline that's been operating for 40 years, that now has Swedish aeroplanes, going to tell one of their Captains of the chaos he creates whenever he lingers over the PTT switch after he's finished speaking?
Busy ATC: "xxx123 climb FL 125"
xxx pilot: "climb FL125 xxx123.......pause....linger...(finally release switch)"
Busy ATC: "....tish Control 124.5"
xxx pilot silence..............
Busy ATC: "xxx123??"
xxx pilot "Go ahead xxx123..........pause....linger...(finally release switch)"
Busy ATC: "......oo four decimal five."
xxx pilot "Sorry was that for xxx123 contact 124.5?...(pause....linger etc.)"
Busy ATC: ....did reply but have finished the acknowledgement.
Meanwhile the rest of us have our ears fried by the constant two-stations-at-once DYOOOOOOOOOOO noise....
