Originally Posted by
Dougdrvr
Which brings up another pet peeve, a controller that talks so much that you can't even check in (trying not to step on someone, especially him) which is OK except that eventually you get the " XXX ! ARE YOU ON THE FREQUENCY?" Sorry for the OT but we get so few actual controllers on here it's hard to resist
In general, I share your contempt for controllers (or anyone
) who talks too much. However, controllers sometimes do it on purpose in order to control the frequency when they have to get things done, and they don't want to be interrupted by an initial call.