2Donkeys
20th Oct 2003, 17:28
There is probably a really good reason for this, so my apologies for the obvious question.
Yesterday on the ramp at Dublin, I picked up the ATIS, and called Clearance Delivery. Liffy 2F, squawk and frequency, contact ground for startup. All read back and confirmed, ground 121.8 good bye.
Called the ground controller acknowledging in the initial call as requested that I had received my clearance... but no this was not enough. I actually had to read the airways clearance back to the ground controller too. My first reaction was to feel stupid for missing something that all the locals obviously knew about, until it became clear that everybody else was being caught the same way.
Why this bit of procedure? Does the Ground Control not sit anywhere near Clearance Delivery, or do they not trust the pilots to remember a clearance from one frequency to the next? :D
Is this the usual procedure at DUBLIN, I don't recall it from previous visits?
Just curious
2D
Yesterday on the ramp at Dublin, I picked up the ATIS, and called Clearance Delivery. Liffy 2F, squawk and frequency, contact ground for startup. All read back and confirmed, ground 121.8 good bye.
Called the ground controller acknowledging in the initial call as requested that I had received my clearance... but no this was not enough. I actually had to read the airways clearance back to the ground controller too. My first reaction was to feel stupid for missing something that all the locals obviously knew about, until it became clear that everybody else was being caught the same way.
Why this bit of procedure? Does the Ground Control not sit anywhere near Clearance Delivery, or do they not trust the pilots to remember a clearance from one frequency to the next? :D
Is this the usual procedure at DUBLIN, I don't recall it from previous visits?
Just curious
2D