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Some of the pilots at the carrier I used to work for had a standard speech
for center or TRACON controllers when they rode the jump seat on "fam"
trips: The captain would place his hand on the speed brake handle and
say,
"This is to correct my mistakes, not your's."

Cute, but I don't think it did much good.


It appears then that some are hesitant to use it to correct their mistakes.
In my experience aircraft are too high because they failed to descend in
time on a discretionary clearance far more often than because ATC didn't
clear them down in time.