On Feb 6, 10:58 am, "Morgans" wrote:
"Duncan (NZ)" wrote

Ground controllers - w' the exception of taxi intructions, typically
we'd read that back. Otherwise an acknowlegement is fine.

Advisory service, ie, Information, you'd just read back the QNH.

Tower and Control - you copy back the lot (they wanna know you've got it
right).

Interesting. I had no idea that there were that many differences.
--
Jim in NC

I had no idea either!!! I guess with us being on the other side of
the world, we have developed different ways of doing some things...

There's a couple of other differences that spring to mind as I type
this - our flight levels start at 13,000 feet versus 18000 in the
US.. It is 18000, right??

And we use the English Q codes and the US doesn't.. We use QNH for
our altimeter setting, and QFE for altimeter setting that makes the
field elevation zero.

And I am sure there are other differences..

And of course our runways are generally a lot shorter and mostly
grass, which can be tricky if you are used to long sealed runways..