Thu May 19, 2022 9:55 am
#1911988
@Paul_Sengupta I think we can all agree that it is a very poor instruction.
As I believe @rikur_ and @PeteSpencer have pointed out, some pilots seem to have a tendency of reading back the Squawk and then passing message/life story even when only receiving the instruction "G-ABCD, squawk 4567". Maybe the ATCO has become sick if this so is trying to emphasis "Just readback squawk and say absolutely nothing else". It is a maybe however.
I don't think anyone can be thought of as doing something wrong for either choosing to readback or remain silent. It is just my logic (and maybe my RT tutor's) of what is being requested. The tutor's logic was keep quiet because they will ask you to readback the squawk later when they have time to deal with you.
There was a nice extract from CAP413. 2.70 2 "The ATS messages listed below are to be read back in full by the pilot/driver. If a readback is not received the pilot/driver will be instructed to do so" SSR Operating Instructions are listed as requiring read back.
So if you do not read back (because they have told you to standby which) they will instruct you to read back when they are ready. Ideally, just as you have written down the squawk and are about to read it back, the ATCO will have started talking to other traffic making the standby instruction obvious. But at a mlitary airfield the ATCO may have started communication on UHF.
Maybe it is examples like this that make people wary of using the radio.
As I believe @rikur_ and @PeteSpencer have pointed out, some pilots seem to have a tendency of reading back the Squawk and then passing message/life story even when only receiving the instruction "G-ABCD, squawk 4567". Maybe the ATCO has become sick if this so is trying to emphasis "Just readback squawk and say absolutely nothing else". It is a maybe however.
I don't think anyone can be thought of as doing something wrong for either choosing to readback or remain silent. It is just my logic (and maybe my RT tutor's) of what is being requested. The tutor's logic was keep quiet because they will ask you to readback the squawk later when they have time to deal with you.
There was a nice extract from CAP413. 2.70 2 "The ATS messages listed below are to be read back in full by the pilot/driver. If a readback is not received the pilot/driver will be instructed to do so" SSR Operating Instructions are listed as requiring read back.
So if you do not read back (because they have told you to standby which) they will instruct you to read back when they are ready. Ideally, just as you have written down the squawk and are about to read it back, the ATCO will have started talking to other traffic making the standby instruction obvious. But at a mlitary airfield the ATCO may have started communication on UHF.
Maybe it is examples like this that make people wary of using the radio.