RT waffel
PPRuNe's favourite BABE!!
Joined: Apr 2001
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From: under the duvet!!!!
White Shadow,
If only a few more vfr pilots were like you!!
That is all the details that I need to provide you with a FIS/RIS. You would be surprised at how long it can take me to drag all the required information out of some pilots!!
Almost as bad as the life story ones
If only a few more vfr pilots were like you!!
That is all the details that I need to provide you with a FIS/RIS. You would be surprised at how long it can take me to drag all the required information out of some pilots!!
Almost as bad as the life story ones
Joined: Oct 1999
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From: Anywhere
VFR Flight Plans
If you file a vfr flight plan before departing then all units along the way get details through the AFTN system and this again reduces the details you have to pass.
Notwithstanding this the actual practicalities of having the plan are non-existent. I for one am not going to make up a pile of strips for flights which may or may not call (no where to keep them ready anyway at summer traffic levels) but if this was to be done then there'd be no way I'd have the time to actually find the strip when the aircraft called if there were so many. Direct handovers or info when you call are the only practical solution at the moment.
CM
Joined: Mar 2001
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From: Florida, USA
White Shadow - whilst I agree entirely with what you say (though maybe not the way you say it)....if you are going to re-write the CAP413 into your own language does that include the dropping of the word altitude when operating on a QNH??
If you're at a height you should be saying the QFE.
who I am; where I am; my height & QNH; my destination/route; what service I'd like.
Joined: Sep 2000
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From: Devon, UK
GW -
Oops.
Thanks. Should indeed have written Altitude, on QNH.
I usually just say the numbers, on RT. -
eg "two thousand feet, on QNH one zero two one"
Seems enough? Tho' probably wouldn't pass an RT exam...
WS
Oops.
Thanks. Should indeed have written Altitude, on QNH.
I usually just say the numbers, on RT. -
eg "two thousand feet, on QNH one zero two one"
Seems enough? Tho' probably wouldn't pass an RT exam...
WS
Last edited by White Shadow; 9th July 2002 at 11:27.
