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Old 29th October 2013 | 12:43
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The_Pink_Panther
 
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From: The Wild Blue Yonder
As many have testified here, listening to other GA traffic is a double edged sword. Listening makes you more tuned into to the normal pattern of exchange, but also exposes you to everyone else’s bad habits.

Before I’d even sat my RT exam, I remember flying the entire downwind leg rejoining the circuit at my home airfield, unable to call G-XX downwind" due to a departing aircraft giving the CAA text book version of what NOT to do, “Yep, thanks, got that, rolling now, thanks for the great bacon sandwiches, lovely to see you again… bla bla bla.., thanks for the fuel uplift …bla bla bla, looking forward to dropping in again on our way back, hope the weather’s good for it then, bye-bye for now”

Hopefully you’re far enough into your training to spot those things and know what to do. My FI had a real pet hate of other people’s bad RT and would always make a point of telling me what should have been said by others, not just when I got it wrong.
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