Guys(and I mean that to include gals too)

     If you are using Knots, MPH, Kmph, or whatever to fly your airplane that is fine, but if you are in the ATC system, we use Knots, and if you are assigned a speed, it is in Knots, and you are expected to fly that speed.   This is not a ground speed, but indicated speed.  You might be assigned a speed of 150Kts, and an airplane right behind you assigned 150Kts.  If you are using mph, you are not compatable.    

As for the ATC slang at LAX; reporting this to the FSDO will do nothing.   You must call the ATC facility, and ask to talk to the QA department.   You will need time, date, and where you were.   That will get taken care of very quickly.   That kind of slang is unacceptable for all of us as pilots, and all of us as air traffic controllers.   On a side note, the other day I was talking to a foreign pilot and I asked him his heading.   He said W.   I said say again, and he said Whiskey........oh yea, if you look at the heading indicator, that's exactly what it says...... W.        OK, while we are talking ATC,   last summer when the planets were close, a pilot asked me if that was Venus that was so bright........I just said, no sir I believe that's Uranus.    :-)

Ron Galbraith

LNCE - N5ES 

 

 

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