Originally Posted by
GeeWizDriver
My primary flight instructor was a career air traffic controller. That was an absolute hot button for him. "Oh is a letter, NOT a number" he would say. Radio work in general across this industry is abysmal but there isn't much to be done about it.
Sure there is. It’s called mentorship. Don’t have to be an overbearing prick about it, but a simple course correction early in one’s 135/121 career is sometimes all that is needed. There are lots of piston only/CFI types showing up in the right seats of regional airline cockpits now. They don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground. Just coach em up, and these issues won’t be issues at all.