I especially like IanW's latest;
Earlier he said;
"The frequency you have popped up on unannounced will try to work out what you are and who you are and why you are calling them and may have no idea where you should really go."
However in his latest post he tells us;
"You should also remember that there is a standard handover/assume procedure between all sectors. The receiving sector can see an aircraft coming toward the sector airspace with a datablock that tells the controller all the pertinent details about the flight. A sector controller will not sit there quiet while a flight under the control of the 'upstream' sector bores into the sector airspace. The controllers will be talking between each other about the flight trying to work out why it is not responding and being handed over."
So which is it? :roll eyes:
You are not paying attention.
You are just at the boundary of the active sector - Sector 14
Sector 14 is in the process of trying to hand you to Sector 20
You get clever and call sector 9's frequency as that is what you think may be next.
So you manage to give problems to 3 ATC sectors. Not so clever.