A few aggravations..........
1. UK PPL's talking to major airport controllers for advisory service and giving their life histories whilst commercial operators are trying to get a word in edgeways.
2. Spanish and to a much lesser degree French pilots and controllers talking to each other in their native language at major international airports. I can manage most of the latter but very little of the former - hard to keep track of whats going on both in the air and on the ground. Its not that they cannot do it - they just don't !
3. Endless US carrier chit-chat across the pond on 123.45.
4. The 'Guard-Police' who don't actually listen to the transmission on 121.5 before jumping in.
5. The incredibly slow Italian Volmet service and the almost impossibly fast Greek equivilant - somewhere in-between will be just fine guys.
6. Frequency changes at BHX on departure just as we are cleaning-up and completing checks.
Grumpy Old Man - yep
