Originally Posted by
cyras21
This discussion has gone much better then I anticipated. I've tried having similar discussions with my fellow controllers and it's like I punked a jock in a locker room in front of his crew. They want no part of it, fine with using bad techniques because it's worked before.
I fear if we, controllers and pilots, don't start turning around complacency in the workplace one of these days we'll have a perfect storm and the outcome is going to be disastrous.
I've never been too bright, and I'm lazy, so I just repeat what was said to me, exactly as it was said to me, word for word, just like a Parrot (head). I was taught to do this at a very early stage in my flying life, and have never had a problem.
What I don't understand is why some guys always read back the instructions first, then put their flight number at the end...ie. they read it back, backwards. I've even tried to do it, to see if it's faster, or easier, but I find it is HARDER to re-arange the instructions, and I always forget my flight number by the time I've read everything else back in front of it!
SO, I try to keep it simple (stupid) and just read it back exactly as it came to me, Flight number first, then intstructions, word for word. If a Contoller throws me a curve ball ie. not 'standard' phrasology, I'll ask him to clarify it, rather than -ass-u-me- to know what he meant.