In article , rft453
@gmail.com says...


I am a light aircraft pilot and never have any
problem with the radio comms but I don't
think I have ever had any passenger who
wasn't also a pilot who has ever been able
to make any sense of the communication.

Quite a bit of that is knowing what they will be saying.

Many years ago I worked with a light aircraft pilot who had
visited the control tower at Southend.

An aircraft had left their airspace earlier without contacting
them. During the visit he contacted the tower asking for
permissoion to enter. The droll response was "Oh, we didn't
know you'd left!"

The pilot then gave his altitude as flight level 5,000!

He was asaked if he was requesting permission to land or for
re-entry!

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Terry