Just don't ever use the word "underSTAND" as a prefix to any readback! I once flew with a yank co-pilot in a foreign country who acknowledged everything with "understand....." The problem was that his inflexion made it sound like a question, so the controller then repeated the whole thing. It was a bit like "roger, Roger" in that movie.
He did it once too often, and after repeated warnings that if he said it one more time I would hit him, I did indeed punch his lights out. The one and only time I ever resorted to violence as an adult I hasten to add. Tony Abbott punched a wall didn't he?
Being the foreign country that it was, the punchee would have had no hope of pressing an assault charge (I am not that silly!).
UnderSTANDably, when we landed he quit on the spot.
Last edited by Mach E Avelli; 11th Sep 2012 at 02:07.