So Brett is a fat chick??
First Flathatter, now this!
That's right - fat chick. And, in case you're wondering, MB, no, I will not marry you.
Brett
So Brett is a fat chick??
First Flathatter, now this!
Lots of words about flashing people...
That's right - fat chick. And, in case you're wondering, MB, no, I will not marry you.
Brett
Ergo, post #5 (above), item #1 ........ I thought I remembered that the acknowledge of the ident was not required. ....
Ergo, post #5 (above), item #1 ....
ACTUALLY ... I was informed of the error of my ways by one of the first of the really, REALLY crusty, cranky, crotchety 747 Captains that I flew with ... I KNOW the picture of a 747 Captain like that is hard for some of you to conjure up ... but he corrected many of my misunderstandings re: comm procedures that had ALSO been ingrained into my fuzzy young(er) head (many incorrectly) from good 'ol UNCLE while serving in Big Blue ...I understand, but "deciding" to do something "years ago" doesn't mean that's what the book answer is. Just giving perspective. You just happened to have that enlightened perspective/knowledge earlier than most of us.
:icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:So was the FAR/AIM written on papyrus back then? Sorry. when YOU talk about crusty 747 captains, I couldn't resist.
PLUS ... someone needs to do something about the title of this thread.
The words "annoying" and "pilots" are seldom, if ever, seen juxtaposed in content or thought; let alone uttered in the same breath ...
I'm guessing that most of the current military pilots in here don't do a whole lot of local area VFR flying. Probably more IFR I'm guessing. In San Diego we have a freq for local area pilot to pilot comms, an advisory freq so you can give a position report and get the same. More often than not, when I am trying to participate on this freq and listen to the other 4 radios, I have to shut it off. It gets to be nothing more than folks that sound like they really just want to run their suck. It's 122.75 VHF if anybody in the San Diego area wants to torture themselves.
For SNFOs, since you don't actually fly...how you sound on the radios is part of your professional reputation.
Tape yourself sometime on a flight. We do it in the fleet with HUD tapes and critique ourselves, so it's a valid learning tool.
For those of you that don't know, you can go to http://liveatc.net and try to find yourselves in the archives. Pensacola is one of the areas that they have scanners set up for, so if you know roughly what time you were flying you can go to that date and save the audio file to listen to it. The limitations are: 1) Archives are only kept for 30 days, 2) It's a scanner setup so you may end up just catching bits and pieces of conversations, and 3) The last time I listened, they had no UHF capabilities. Which, if you're like the FOs, when you go to Pensacola Regional you talk on VHF anyway. So on your next flight, do something at Regional and make your donkeyed up calls on VHF then come home and listen to it.
I've plundered around before trying to hear myself, just to make sure I don't sound like a raging dipshit. Luckily my super smooth DJ voice keeps me out of trouble most of the time...