I wouldn't take it personally either. From my experience, that is just
the way the Columbus controllers are. Fly down south a little bit and
Dayton and Cincy both have extremely helpful controllers, but Columbus is
a different story.

"Neil Gould" wrote in
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Recently, Bob Chilcoat posted:

Mea culpa:

I was flying into OSU airport at Columbus, OH on Friday. I contacted
Columbus approach at the appropriate time, was given a squawk, and
continued on inbound for OSU. The controller tried to call traffic
for "Archer 411" a couple of times, so I asked if he was calling
"Archer 44511". He seemed exasperated, but gave me traffic, which I
immediately spotted and announced that "511 has traffic".

[...]

I guess I learned that you need to ask immediately if you think a
call might be for you, even though the call is a bit garbled. Is the
aircraft type an official part of the call? Any other actions I
should have taken?

Perhaps you shouldn't take this so personally. In addition to being
one of Ohio's busiest airports, OSU is a training field with many
students that at times create traffic headaches. I have encountered
similarly exasperated controllers at OSU, and just had to realize that
they were having a bad day. I'm pretty sure the guy didn't go home and
complain to his wife about "Archer 511".

Regards,

Neil