Peter Duniho ) wrote:

ATC is not going to care if you take 2 minutes to complete a handoff.

Maybe this is yet another locality difference? In the Northeast US
airspace, I recall at least two incidents receiving a hand-off, tuning
the frequency, and having to wait about a minute to check in due to
frequency congestion. Before I was able to make the call, the
controller suddenly called me: "Bonanza xxx, are you on yet?"

In both cases, I remember acknowledging the call and immediately
receiving either an altitude change or a vector for traffic.

Now, had I not been on the frequency, would this have been a problem?
Probably not, because I am sure the controller had other options, but it
seemed to make the controller's work slightly easier that I was there.

In a one-radio scenario, I would prefer an immediate frequency switch,
then include a request for frequency change with the check-in rather
than take time between switching frequencies to receive the ATIS.


--
Peter