bob turner
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Have I done this before?
As far as I can tell, you must acknowledge any ATC instructions with your N-number and a word, like Roger, or Wilco, or something similar. But I am teaching a slightly enhanced readback:
I teach - every time you hear a runway number, read it back with your last three digits. Every time you hear an altitude, even VFR, read that back, with your N-number, abbreviated.
Every time you hear the words "Hold Short Of" Read that back, etc.
I am considering adding the word "cross" - as in "Cross 28 left, then contact ground" - and of course the runway number as in my first point above.
Everything else, VFR, gets a roger, wilco, looking, or some other one word answer with an abbreviated N number. My reason is simple - there are too many folks practicing their English on the frequency, so we native speakers need to free up some air time.
But here is a question: Remember how you were cleared to cross any runways enroute to your assigned runway? That may have changed in August of this year, or it may not have - what will happen to you if ATC says taxi to runway 23 via all those taxiways, but forgets to say "cross 28 left, cross 29 right" in accordance with their new procedures. Is your clearance limit still runway 23, or are you now not authorized to cross?
As far as I can tell, you must acknowledge any ATC instructions with your N-number and a word, like Roger, or Wilco, or something similar. But I am teaching a slightly enhanced readback:
I teach - every time you hear a runway number, read it back with your last three digits. Every time you hear an altitude, even VFR, read that back, with your N-number, abbreviated.
Every time you hear the words "Hold Short Of" Read that back, etc.
I am considering adding the word "cross" - as in "Cross 28 left, then contact ground" - and of course the runway number as in my first point above.
Everything else, VFR, gets a roger, wilco, looking, or some other one word answer with an abbreviated N number. My reason is simple - there are too many folks practicing their English on the frequency, so we native speakers need to free up some air time.
But here is a question: Remember how you were cleared to cross any runways enroute to your assigned runway? That may have changed in August of this year, or it may not have - what will happen to you if ATC says taxi to runway 23 via all those taxiways, but forgets to say "cross 28 left, cross 29 right" in accordance with their new procedures. Is your clearance limit still runway 23, or are you now not authorized to cross?
