The sky is big, airplanes are small, but there are a lot of airplanes. Look at the Aviation Safety and Reporting System (ASRS) online and see for yourself the consequences of coloring outside the lines on the radio. You say “Twelve thousand” and your airplane levels at 12,000 on his screen, good enough! The controller is interested in what you have to say but he has the data for your flight on the radar screen to back up what you are saying. There’s plenty of room out there for a little sloppiness. If, when talking on the radio, you choose to use your own words rather than the standard phraseology every air traffic controller in the U.S. ASRSīefore this goes too far afield, let’s bring it back to flying and talking on the radio. You want to eat an unwashed apple, fine, eat an unwashed apple. If someone sees you grab an apple and begin eating it without washing it first, likely they aren’t going to say anything unless they are your mother or your nosey neighbor. That’s just something you’ve disciplined yourself to do because you have the imagination to conjure up what might happen if you don’t wash it first. Though an apple has likely never sickened you, and you’ve never heard of anyone being sickened by an apple, you still wash that sucker before eating it. You can’t see the germs on the surface of the apple but you can intuit they may be there. If you’re like me, you wash an apple before eating it. There’s no risk in eating an apple! I’ve been eating apples since I was old enough to chew solid food and I’ve never suffered an injury as a result. What would you choose? Skiing? Football? Skydiving? Driving a car? Let’s pick something really mundane. Pick any activity which has some element of risk of personal injury. ![]() ![]() There doesn’t seem to be any negative consequence for using the language of your choosing on the radio. The FAA isn’t hauling pilots onto the carpet for saying “Twelve thousand” when they should have said “One two thousand”. Airplanes aren’t running into each other on a daily basis. What happens as a result? Most of the time, absolutely nothing. Many if not most pilots don’t stick to the FAA’s script on the radio. Or maybe you do, but you hear other pilots on the radio say “Twelve thousand”. For example, the FAA wants you to transmit the number 12,000 as “One two thousand”. When transmitting on the aircraft radio, the FAA wants you to speak numbers as individual digits. As a leaping off place, let’s use numbers. Let’s you and I talk about that for a moment. You may have seen something I’ve written and had the same thought as the commenter. His conclusion was, his way of doing things on the radio was okay because it had always worked for him. He said it never caused him a problem and he never received negative feedback from air traffic control. The commenter’s point, bracketed by angry filler, was that he had been speaking to ATC in a certain way for decades that was contrary to what I teach–the FAA’s standards. I bring this up because it is a good jumping off point to talk about discipline on the radio. The commenter probably would have started a good conversation with me had he used good communication discipline and not taken a cheap shot. Life is too short to put up with rudeness. ![]() "We have to get to the bottom of how it happened.Yesterday, someone placed a comment at my other website that I immediately deleted because it included some incendiary language. It's shocking," Thompson said on RNZ's Nine to Noon show. Signage is seen on the Radio New Zealand building in Wellington, New Zealand, March 7, 2022. He said he was commissioning an external review of the organization's editing processes. Paul Thompson, the chief executive of taxpayer-funded RNZ, said it had found issues in 16 stories and was republishing them on its website with corrections and editor's notes. A digital journalist from RNZ has been placed on leave pending the result of an employment investigation. Most of the stories, which date back more than a year, were written by the Reuters news agency and were changed at Radio New Zealand to include Russian propaganda. Wellington, New Zealand - The head of New Zealand's public radio station apologized Monday for publishing "pro-Kremlin garbage" on its website after more than a dozen wire stories on the Ukraine war were found to have been altered.
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