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Old 17th Jul 2013, 09:03
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Basil
 
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AdamFrisch,
At my home airport the tower controllers know me, my tail number and my plane
That's different from a busy international airport handling everything from B737s to A380s.

Recollect, many years ago, landing at well known west coast Canadian airport.
Our SOP, at the time, was pilot called for reverse which was applied and cancelled by the other guy so there's a bit of chatter on the flight deck. As we were rolling out about 90kn, ATC decided to pass us our taxi clearance at machine gun speed. I ignored the transmission until we'd cancelled reverse and then called for a repeat, remarking that it would be better to have left it until we'd finished our landing.
ATC miffed, captain embarrassed, Bas - fkit! I was right! but no one wants to lose the pissing contest
Anyway the ATCO must have been so upset that he told our next airport. When we landed there we rolled to the turnoff, exited the runway and only then did the US ATCO say "Hey, ***, OK to speak to you now?"
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