Because going into places like EWR on most days they'll give you a speed "or greater", then a speed "or less", back to greater, back to less, then finally a set solid speed to hold "on the nose". Probably just a memory jogger to remember it's not an "or greater" or an "or less" speed.

Or the commuting F/A sitting in Row 10 of a 30-row aircraft. As soon as she can get up when the flight arrives at the gate in the crew base/connecting hub, she stands in the aisle, pulling carry-ons out of the overheads on both sides of her row (having pre-boarded at the departure station and used up half of the bin space in the coach cabin), and proceeds to put together her entire ensemble of Roll-A-Board, tote bag, cooler, Trader Joe's shopping bag, and God knows what else, while 95 revenue passengers are lined up behind her, glaring at her, waiting to deplane.

Well it could be worse. The old MSP pilot lounge had one urinal in the bathroom, and no door on the stall.

Plus it was right next the the boiler room, so it was 120 degrees, winter or summer.

Nu

I ain't afraid a no book.

From your Wikipedia page: "Multiservice tactical brevity codes are codes used by various military forces."

I truly appreciate your service along with all the other brave men and women that have fought and died for this nation. However, your current position is a civilian one with the rest of us civilians. If you are still in the guard or reserve feel free to use the military brevity codes where you can be sure everyone will understand your transmission. For the the sake of situational awareness in a busy airspace system I would like to understand the transmissions of the people I am sharing airspace with.

it's insurance against not holding it on the nose because they forgot to monitor the speed after pulling to idle. they'll catch it, at 230. where they then ram up the power, forget what they're doing and next thing they know they're looking up from a frustrating Angry Birds level to find 315 indicated.

but at least they promised they'd try!

You're bordering on being a tool shoelu....dial it back. And, obtw, SWA guys are just as likely to use slang as any of the rest of us.

been to JFK?

There you stand in the footsteps of the great Pan Am 747 Clippers ready to go to LHR, printing off your paperwork in a backroom with no ventilation or air conditioning except for a loud 40" fan that doesn't move air forward and unable to breathe because in the adjacent two ventless bathrooms are two dudes doing formation dumping.

it's not quite what you thought it'd be.

the best part is when the dude walks out, minus an o-ring, into a small room with 18 men and women and 12 printers jamming away all of whom are having to stand their and smell what you did and act like they don't notice.

oh where has the romance of this career gone!?

I take great pride in the destruction of the masses that occurs when I do a Sir John Harrington.

Just slam the door open, look around and yell "Whew! Do NOT go in there!"

I hear it most often from the corporate guys actually.