Proud.
All good advice here but it really will come with practice. Just make sure you are practicing the correct phrases.
The one I seem to get the most is 'Squawk **** and pass message'.
Thing.
Im guessing that you are talking about an airport named after a county that no loger exists, near a river estuary with a suspension bridge.
This REALLY irritates me. They are generally very GA friendly and good with inexperienced students but persist with this, even though I have, over the past decade, writen to them, emailed, and discussed it on the phone.
They dont seem to realise how this non standard response to an initial call really screws up the inexperienced who expect either 'Pass your message' or 'Standby'
To be fair, I think it's mainly just the one controller who does this, but it's spreading to the others.
MJ
