Well said TM. I like the maritime method of repeating an instruction as it is executed.
E.g. PF commands "flap 15" Other guy/girl does it and simply states "15 selected". We have all sorts of disagree warnings to tell us if the flaps don't get to where we told 'em to go, so, why all the other noise about flaps running, flaps arriving, flaps happy in position?
My other pet hates are the response to the 'gear up' command of: "selected, three reds" when there is bugger-all anyone can do at that stage if there are only one and a half reds. And the 'inbound, no flags' call. One operator I had some dealings with had a hilarious response to the 'visual' call on approach. It was: "for the threshold".....doh?
The really important calls are the altitude awareness 'one to go' calls, yet these are probably more often missed than some of the lesser fly-by-mouth ones you mention. Probably because of all the other tribal cries being uttered at the time.
Last edited by Mach E Avelli; 17th November 2013 at 06:16.