"Hey Zapa, you bored? Trawling DG RP from Mehico? How about you mind your own business?"
Sorry bloggs, Im as ozzie as the next bludger.
But as an employee of a foreign carrier, it bugs me when I return to oz and listen to the way ATC talk to foreign pilots non english as a first language types. Insisting on word perfect oz only phraseology is stoooopid considering this crew just flew through 50 different countries last month and only gets to hear oz atc once a year.
It may make you feel all warm and cozy inside to pretend professionalism is word perfect r/t but a better way would be to fit in the rest of the world. The most important thing is to get the message across and when atc ask a foreign pilot to report over oodnadatta instead of oscar oscar delta then .......arghhhh!
Same with most other rules/regs and crap ozmates go on with totally clueless that there is an entire world out there doing just fine thankyou very much
rant over