Too much whinging about nothing here. Seriously, who gives a **** about what is said. As long as the message is clear and unambiguous, standard and professional, that's what the job is about. In some thousands of hours of fast jet time (and in FJ that meant a lot of departures and recoveries) I cannot think of one single occasion when I have had any sort of misunderstanding on RT with ATC. Is this PC and over-regulation being applied to yet another aspect of our lives?
I don't believe it's that difficult. Unless we choose to make it so. But, of course, everything has to have a rule so we can hold someone accountable if something goes wrong.
