What is causing this issue at Sywell at the moment, lack of qualified FISOs ?
Iceman
Iceman wrote:What’s stopping them putting in A/G in the meantime, or preferably, nothing at all, and just letting the pilots do their own thing in a Safetycom fashion ?
Iceman
PeteSpencer wrote:
Such calls should be made on the published frequency to " (Name of airfield) Traffic": even better if calls are topped and tailed.
Peter.
PaulisHome wrote:PeteSpencer wrote:
Such calls should be made on the published frequency to " (Name of airfield) Traffic": even better if calls are topped and tailed.
Peter.
Pet grievance of mine (sorry).
Why the last bit? I understand the argument for topping and tailing calls on Safetycom - it's not clear which airfield you're talking about otherwise. But for somewhere with a discrete frequency, it's just pointless verbiage. Use "(Name of airfield) Traffic" on the first call, then keep it short. (Nor do you need full callsigns.)
There's a basic principle in RT which is to say what you need to say in the shortest way possible.
Paul
PeteSpencer wrote:
You're right of course but my life's too short to care about other people's pet grievances
(Though I would question the use of shortened call signs in an anonymous and unknown environment)
PeteSpencer wrote:(Though I would question the use of shortened call signs in an anonymous and unknown environment)
PaulisHome wrote:PeteSpencer wrote:
You're right of course but my life's too short to care about other people's pet grievances
(Though I would question the use of shortened call signs in an anonymous and unknown environment)
Well fair enough on the grievance.
But I'd argue that I don't really care about the full callsign of someone at the same airfield as me - just that they're there. Shortened callsign is perfectly adequate, and perhaps more effective since it's easier to remember.
Paul
Rob P wrote:PeteSpencer wrote:(Though I would question the use of shortened call signs in an anonymous and unknown environment)
I don't follow that line of reasoning
If I arrive at Mudtown Smallstrip and their A/G is not operating that day, what benefit is it to the other traffic if the know the first three letter of my callsign are Golf, Bravo Zulu?
Rob P
PaulisHome wrote:PeteSpencer wrote:
You're right of course but my life's too short to care about other people's pet grievances
(Though I would question the use of shortened call signs in an anonymous and unknown environment)
Well fair enough on the grievance.
But I'd argue that I don't really care about the full callsign of someone at the same airfield as me - just that they're there. Shortened callsign is perfectly adequate, and perhaps more effective since it's easier to remember.
Paul