Originally Posted by
Cralis
I did 10 hours RA-Aus training at YCAB around 2010, and battled with the radio call, "Caboolture, Technam XXXX, lining up runway 06, Caboolture".
More nerves than anything maybe.
It gets easier. Having trained at YCAB myself, CTAF calls are the easy calls for me. I'm surprised that as a software developer using common syntax all the time it wouldn't be easier for you. I feel that software development and code structure helped me during my early stages of training.