Pilots Talking on the Radio

Try picking out the radio calls in Pakistan and Africa. The foreign accents don't help.
 
jpower said:
I don't quite understand this stuck mic business. At least in the plane I fly with an SL-40, a different sound comes out of the headset when the PTT is pressed, so it's pretty darn near impossible to have a stuck mic and not know, unless you're totally zoned out. And if someone isn't calling you back, you're probably not completely zoned out. You'd be listening for him.
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+1...

On my plane, when I transmit I get a red light that illuminates . It is clearly marked TX... I too, also get a different tone in my headset during a transmit event..

A stuck mic might confuse me for about 10 seconds but I would hope I can troubleshoot it real quick.:dunno::yesnod:..
 
I've had an intermittent stuck mic and it can be very confusing. The radio did not have a TX light (maybe that's why they started installing them). It seemed like an intermittent radio failure to us.
 
35 AoA said:
In no particular order, my peeves are:

1) 90% of the things people use guard for
2) Full read-backs in place of "wilco" or "roger"
3) Controllers who play lil Wayne on the radio. I don't care how you talk off-duty, but you need to annunciate your words at work.
4) Tower controllers who think that I can hear a word that they are saying over the house party going on in the background.

#3 & 4 mostly just apply to military fields, where I run into this more often than not.
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:no:. "Roger" and "Wilco" have their place and I use them when appropriate, but there are some cases where a full read-back is the safe thing to do. If I were a controller, I'd request a full read-back on complex instructions just to make sure we're on the same page.
 
GCA319 said:
:no:. "Roger" and "Wilco" have their place and I use them when appropriate, but there are some cases where a full read-back is the safe thing to do. If I were a controller, I'd request a full read-back on complex instructions just to make sure we're on the same page.
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Absolutely. Hold short instructions, landing clearances, altitude assignments, etc all should be repeated. I just meant all the extraneous other things that a lot of folks just blindly read back when they don't need to. It isn't a huge deal normally, but at the wrong time, this excessive chatter becomes quite annoying.
 
Meanee said:
I love it when 2-3 pilots start swapping their "war stories" on CTAF in northeast.... The times I wish I told them to STFU and let me listen for traffic... And they are from the same field. Land, go to each other's hangar, and talk your hearts out.
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122.8 on any given day around here in the summer...I don't know why I bother turning on the radios anymore!
 
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