HF on R220
04-12-2011, 04:53 PM
#52
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Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: MD-11 FO
Posts: 608
Originally Posted by Huck
I took your advice today. They came back with, "Confirm CPDLC".....
How many times do you get this in Anchorage...
"Good morning ground, FedEx 19 heavy pushing back from spot 6...we have Zulu."
"FedEx 19 heavy, push and start your discretion. Verify you have Zulu"
No $hit! Didn't I just tell you I had Zulu!
And everyone knows (or should) that SFO is going to ask for your registration number and destination...so give it to them on initial contact and save them making a call to pimp you for it.
Not saying any of this applies to you since I have no idea who "you" are.
Maybe I just have a friendly voice and that's why I don't have issues, other than me understanding what they are saying sometimes.
04-13-2011, 04:38 AM
#53
Line Holder
Joined APC: Jan 2009
Posts: 43
Originally Posted by TheBaron
Maybe I wasn't clear. You do need to tell them you are CPDLC. Just don't give a position report before hand. When you do...they start writing it all down so they can pass it to ATC, then when you tell them "Oh yeah...and we are CPDLC" they just have to tear up what they just wasted time writing. I'm not implying they sometimes don't hear or never make errors.
How many times do you get this in Anchorage...
"Good morning ground, FedEx 19 heavy pushing back from spot 6...we have Zulu."
"FedEx 19 heavy, push and start your discretion. Verify you have Zulu"
No $hit! Didn't I just tell you I had Zulu!
And everyone knows (or should) that SFO is going to ask for your registration number and destination...so give it to them on initial contact and save them making a call to pimp you for it.
Not saying any of this applies to you since I have no idea who "you" are.
Maybe I just have a friendly voice and that's why I don't have issues, other than me understanding what they are saying sometimes.
How many times do you get this in Anchorage...
"Good morning ground, FedEx 19 heavy pushing back from spot 6...we have Zulu."
"FedEx 19 heavy, push and start your discretion. Verify you have Zulu"
No $hit! Didn't I just tell you I had Zulu!
And everyone knows (or should) that SFO is going to ask for your registration number and destination...so give it to them on initial contact and save them making a call to pimp you for it.
Not saying any of this applies to you since I have no idea who "you" are.
Maybe I just have a friendly voice and that's why I don't have issues, other than me understanding what they are saying sometimes.
04-14-2011, 05:15 AM
#54
Militant Commuter
Joined APC: Mar 2011
Position: Re-****ing-tired
Posts: 19
Originally Posted by TheBaron
I think she ended up working the control tower in Toledo circa late 1990's. Sounded like a smoking hot D.J. from Playboy radio...you could actually hear her purr. Turned out to be a plump mid-50 year old grandmother.
I especially like the extra syllables as in "UPS-oh one-oh zero nine-oh, contact-oh Kansai Approach-ee on One-oh two-oh four-oh decimal eight-oh". Of course all done in one octave above my hearing range!
I still remember the first time in theater trying to decipher "rajastanbyekohordeenayshun" (Roger, standby coordination)
p.s. IMHO the Chinese controllers are light years ahead of where they were 10 years ago. Must be that party controlled public school system.
04-14-2011, 06:19 AM
#55
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Joined APC: Mar 2011
Posts: 218
Agreed. Of everywhere in the world that I've operated into, I have the most trouble understanding the female Japanese controllers. No problem with the men, but the women and my ear never seem to get along. Just thinking about in now, I seem to have the same trouble with my better half. Guess it's me.
04-14-2011, 08:48 AM
#56
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Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: MD11 CPT
Posts: 1,077
Originally Posted by finedavefine
Agreed. Of everywhere in the world that I've operated into, I have the most trouble understanding the female Japanese controllers. No problem with the men, but the women and my ear never seem to get along. Just thinking about in now, I seem to have the same trouble with my better half. Guess it's me.
That was actually more disturbing than the controllers. Those people have issues
04-14-2011, 08:59 AM
#57
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Joined APC: Jan 2007
Position: Nordskog Industries Field Technician
Posts: 688
Originally Posted by finedavefine
Agreed. Of everywhere in the world that I've operated into, I have the most trouble understanding the female Japanese controllers. No problem with the men, but the women and my ear never seem to get along. Just thinking about in now, I seem to have the same trouble with my better half. Guess it's me.
04-14-2011, 09:07 AM
#58
Nice lookin' tree, there!
Joined APC: Sep 2006
Position: MD-11, old man
Posts: 2,198
Originally Posted by md11phlyer
Everybody has theirs. I have no problem understanding anybody from Tokyo to Tehran and Bishkek to Bangalore, but put a native-english-speaking Brit on the other end and I have no idea what's being said. Not the Hong Kong Brits, I got them. It's the UK where I can't understand a thing.
London and Memphis,...no clue
!fbh
04-14-2011, 09:44 AM
#59
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Joined APC: Apr 2007
Posts: 124
Originally Posted by finedavefine
Agreed. Of everywhere in the world that I've operated into, I have the most trouble understanding the female Japanese controllers. No problem with the men, but the women and my ear never seem to get along. Just thinking about in now, I seem to have the same trouble with my better half. Guess it's me.
