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From: "Ron Galbraith" <cfi@instructor.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Charlie's pet peeve

Charlie,
   I have the same heart burn that you have with all this frequency congest=
ion.  Guys, when you are in the pattern it's totally unnecessary to announc=
e, crosswind, downwind, base and final.  Just announce entering downwind, a=
nd turning final.  Also, totally unnecessary to announce where you are twic=
e in every transmission such as "Longmont traffic Lancair Five Echo Sierra =
turning downwind Longmont".  It's also against the AIM to announce  "traffi=
c in the area please advise".  Just because you do this procedure and you h=
ear a bunch of other people using it, doesn't make it right.  With very few=
 CTAS frequencies available, keep the transmissions short and to the point,=
 and when you do transmit make your transmissions intelligible, as you woul=
d want the other traffic in the area to do for you.
=20
I figured up the other day that I have spent just over 31,000 hours in my A=
TC carrier actually plugged in talking to pilots, add my 4000 hours of flig=
ht time and that puts me over 35000 hrs Communicating in the ATC system.  I=
 feel hoarse just thinking about it.

Ron Galbraith
ATC (retired as of 3-1-06)