Originally Posted by FlyerJosh
My biggest pet peeve? The people that can't take a friggin moment to LISTEN TO THE FREQUENCY after switching over. How many times a day do you hear some dummy hit the switch to change freqs, then key the mic, stepping on a conversation or butting between and instruction and readback?
This is truly the worst offense you can make on the radio. I sometimes wait 10 seconds or more to contact the next freq. I can't understand how I could be flying with a 10,000 hour guy who still does this. Another thing I will never do is pronounce five, fife or three as tree. Jeez. What the hell is up with that. I could never be a controller. I'd wash out because I would not say tree.
Did you ever notice the app. controllers in Canada always have to have the last word? When you read back an instruction they always key the mic and say roger or something else like that. One day my FO and I tried to get in to a contest to say the last word. When she said roger, I said roger. Unfortunately she was too professional to get in to it and did not reply. Oh well. Would have been a better story.