Hi Folks,
Just a word from a low hours PPL....I still use the term TYRO on occasions, if I am undertaking a procedure or transit that I have little experience of, because I still consider that I am inexperienced in many flying things.
For example the first time I went across London City zone I asked for a transit and then said I was a low hours PPL.
I know it is not universal, I am just extending the invitation in the notes under para 9.5 in CAP413 where it states, albeit linked to the emergency message section, that inexperienced pilots are invited to use the term TYRO when talking to mil units or D&D. In my mind it doesn't hurt to say so when undertaking a procedure for the first time.
It might go something like "........I am a low hours PPL and TYRO in this procedure......". I would even say I have received a better service insofar as the r/t might be given slower or more explicitly.
Barney x