Bill Denton ) wrote:

Please allow me to respectfully disagree with your sentiments. A few weeks
ago their was a thread regarding the on-runway collision a few years ago in
the Canary Islands (?). One of the major causes of that collision was the
lack of a standard communications protocol.
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Bill, returning due respect, IMO this is apples and oranges. As an avid
reader of Don Brown's monthly ATC column on AVWeb, I strive to be a "by the
book" communicator for all required transmissions. Recalling a few fatal
accident reports where poor communication of required transmissions was a
factor in the crash, I am in full agreement with you that standard, brief,
accurate responses for required transmissions is the *only* way to go. It
appears to me that you are misinterpreting my previous posts.

Most likely, you are a more experienced pilot than I, so you know there are
times when ATC will add non-standard phraseology, such as "Have a great
day/flight/Christmas, etc." Instead of clogging the frequency with "And
you have a nice day/Christmas/weekend, too" response, I simply double-
click, which takes all of less than a second of radio time, yet implies
"Thanks/You, too/Etc." This and the wind example are the *only* examples
of when I believe it acceptable to use the double-click response method.

If another pilot happens to start a transmission during the double-click, I
would wager that ATC will not miss a single word of that pilot's
transmission. And, it goes without saying to me that the level of
frequency activity determines if even a response to the "Have a nice day"
is warranted.

If everything were 100% standard, you would not hear ATC use non-standard
communications at all. However, routinely flying into Boston's Logan,
Teterboro, and Baltimore Washington over the last year, I can attest to the
fact that even these busy controllers will sometimes add non-standard, non-
required phrases. Occasionally responding to these *non-standard* (thanks,
have a nice day, have a great flight) phrases with a double-click is, IMO,
an effective communication shortcut. And up until this thread, I thought
it was quite trivial.

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Peter












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