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Old 17th Dec 2002, 10:48
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ITCZ
 
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Again, let us focus on the original point raised in the post...

We are not complaining about the poor boggie bush pilot's nonstandard calls. We are complaining about the several thousand hour IFR jet pilot that has been selected for their experience and aptitude, been trained in a CAO 82.5 /CAR 215 environment with the best aviation training support in the country, flown all around the world as an S/O as an 'apprenticeship' in jet aviation and BEING PAID THE BIGGEST WAD OF CASH for the least time at the stick in comparison to anyone driving any other machine in that MBZ.

DeHavillandDriver, leave the peacemaker tone at the door --lets not get too warm and fuzzy in here!

The driver-under-instruction is not the prime culprit. The voices we hear are not those of twentysomething, newly promoted F/O's. The gravelly, weary tones broadcast are those that belong to older men who should know better.

And in the rare instance that the poor radio work is the output of a trainee having trouble setting up the aircraft in the last 30 miles, well we can probably all remember initial line training where we had difficulty with that at first.

But presumably you will bring it to that trainee's attention that 'if you have to use 20% of your thinking resources to make an IFR radio call (that you used to make before you joined QF), how can you expect to have enough brain space to monitor and manage the flightpath of your new aeroplane?

The trainee, thus rebuked, should be advised to spend some time in the hotel room practicing his/her calls and SOPs.
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