DH gave me one of the all time graetest lectures over the radio but he had the wrong pilot . Passed his message on to my boss as promised.
Ah, DH. Now there's a blast from the past. Did he tell you off for not doing a touch and go at Bridport on the way to FLI? "I'm watchin' you ****"
Or did you get in the way of one of his shiny Herons through the Gap?
From ATC point of view, I'm with nitpicker. Can't stand the "fully ready" and "fully established" BS. Unfortunately part of the blame for the fully ready crap can be laid on the stupid 5 minutes to start call required here. To which the normal response is "report fully ready". The 5 minute call is to prompt a call down to the radar centre to check for any departure time restriction.
Now we have people coming up to the holding point reporting "fully ready". As said above, you're ready or you're not, end of story. Same for "established".