I have a problem when ATC gives me those kind of instructions ... it seems
dangerously vague to me. Is it even allowed? In the "ATC for dummies" class I
had to take in college, they always taught me that a vector has 3 numbers.
Turn right one - zero degrees ... sounds to me like a right turn to a
heading of 010.
So I got into a bit of a pissing contest with a lady
way to high on her horse on my flight today, what do you guys think on the
matter?
I referred this question to Mrs. Ditchdigger (an FAA controller of the Tower/TRACON variety), and her answer concurs roughly with what KKoran has posted above.
What she said differs only in that she would say "Turn right/left (number of degrees) degrees", as opposed to the phraseology specified above, "Turn (number of degrees) degrees right/left."
Further, she explained (without my having mentioned the term), that "group form" means the number of degrees (10) would be spoken as "ten". Headings would be spoken as the individual numbers, i.e. zero-one-zero.
Therefore, it would seem that the lady in question, if she gave a right turn of "one-zero degrees" was not using proper phraseology.