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Recliner[_2_] · June 19th 13, 11:33 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:54:18 +0000 (UTC),
d wrote:

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:04:54 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message

, at 14:34:33 on Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Recliner
remarked:
As for her overall tenor, "over-excited" doesn't even begin to describe it.

Isn't that her normal style?

I have no idea. I've never seen her before. The closest I have, is

How can you have never seen her before? She's been virtually ubiquitous on
the BBC for about 5 years.

They should do. Both trades should observe the people they are working
with so closely on a day to day basis, in their natural environment, as
part of their basic training.

But they don't work with them closely - they may exchange a few sentences
at most during a departure and thats it. The people the pilots work most
closely with are the rest of the crew.

One thing the programmes show is how formal and jargon-filled the
communications are. As mentioned, they're designed to be succinct,
clear and unambiguous between UK controllers with regional accents and
pilots from anywhere in the world with possibly very limited English.
They aren't at all chatty and have very strictly controlled structures
and content.