The call is STOP!

Why say it three times?
Do you think the F/O might be asleep?

Abort!,
Aborting!!,
Stopping!!!,
Arghh!!!!
Halt mein furher!!

DOH!!

Just - STOP!!!! - Simple innit!!

"I'm taking over":yuk: ...!!!???..do you have SOPs?

Good question there...
 

I have no idea why one must say 'Stop' three times when once would probably suffice to say nothing of saying it twice. That is the way it was presented to me as a Company SOP, so that's the way we do it.

It might go way back to something that happened in the FAA or the RAF. Something like that, I suppose that is now long gone and forgotten as the reason for this arcane practice. It isn't worth worrying about, so that I save my energy for questions about other practices that present bigger potential problems.

I did hear one about a co-pilot who looked down in the dumps, when the Captain said, 'Cheer up!' You know what happened next...

We have a lot of different cultures working together so that whatever the call or action we need to stick to the agreed-upon script. Here I can get some ideas, at least, about possible changes to the script.

This topic is running in Tech Log, but I feel that it's headed strongly in a CRM direction.

What I have gleaned from the good responses here is that each operator has a system, and so long as there is a GOOD system of SOPs in place making no ambiguity in the comprehension of a standard call and the procedures which will follow, then there is no problem. It doesn't matter if Stop, Halt, or Sheeyut is called, as long as it's a standard call which should elicit a standard response.

Also detectable in the responses is the old well worn "Only my airline does it the right way"....Yawn

Old Smokey