Originally Posted by
piperboy84
I guess what i am asking is if ATC have perhaps a low time IFR guy trying to get on the ILS that sounds a bit shaky or is drifting from assigned heading /altitudes would ATC try and "nurse" him to the ILS with the minimum of turning climbs/descents?
I think it depends a lot on where you are flying.
Around NYC (and I assume LA) you definitely get the heading, altitude, crossing limit, radial to intercept, next frequency, etc all in one burst. Somewhere like Lydd the controller will feed information one bit at a time. I think (but could easily be incorrect on this) that UK controllers are taught to not pass more than about two of new altitude, new heading, new speed, new frequency in the same transmission.