Jay Ashworth
Well-Known Member
Just came across this thread, and a few thoughts occur to me, coming from a ham radio background:
- If you have to spell things, always use ICAO standard phonetics; they're less likely to increase your cognitive load. I generally substitute Baker, and occasionally Sugar (though now that the Olds Cutlass Ciera is gone that's not an issue anymore
, but that's all. - Some of the people on here were disagreeing with responses, but they had inadvertantly reconstrued them as responses to GO -- the response to GO is that it happened. It's the Standby/Ready calls that you might want a response to.
- A 'people are listening' code is good, but yeah, always assume your boss is listening, unless you are personally absolutely certain that he cannot be (it's just like guns; always assume they are loaded).
- And the more stations are on the loop, the less talking there's gotta be.
