Originally Posted by FNGFO

I often forget what self absorbed, puerile a-holes airline pilots can be. Thanks for reminding me guys.

Sigh. Yes, a proper ramp control run by company won’t give a ****** about the current ATIS. I’ve noticed we don’t often have a proper ramp control at our stations. Sometimes its ground. Sometimes it’s tower running the whole show. Do you know who’s going to say something to you if you give them the ATIS letter and they don’t require it? Nobody. Or you can play cool 121 pilot, forget that it’s ground and add two to three more lines of communication. I did it the same everywhere. Nobody from ramp control, LCA’s, or CA’s jumped in to correct it. Because it’s fine. I know. That kind of simplicity irks the ****** out of a few of you. Probably because you’re a self absorbed, puerile a-hole. I used to make “courtesy calls” and brief the transition altitude too. The shock. The horror. We also never blocked the alley for inbound traffic, because ground was unaware we were pushing, and the different transition altitudes at foreign airports wasn’t forgotten either. Yes, even though we primarily operate in the US where everyone knows the transition attitude. Because the time it will bite you is on a red eye to a jungle destination you’re unfamiliar with and you haven’t thought about it in 6 months.

Oh Noes!!! Someone is worried about sounding like a douche on the radio!! Never figured out that the world isn’t staring at you eh? You are the douche on the radio if you sit there and roll your eyes when someone says push and start instead of push. Another thing that will never be corrected by anyone, because it doesn’t need to be. Or you can do it the way do it here in ‘Merica at all times and then get it wrong when you don’t fly in ‘Merica.

I’m a simple creature. I do it the same way every time. It keeps me from f’ing up more than I should. If you do it different then that’s fine. That’s called technique. If you’d like to point out in the AOM, FOM or FAR/AIM where any of the above is wrong then I’ll happily change my ways.