Thomas Borchert wrote:

"United Twentyonefortyone,

It's actually easier to remember and takes less time to say than United
two-one-for-one.

Yankspeak (= US equivalent of ICAO R/T) is there because it saves time,
and there's not much of it in the high density airspaces. I've listened
for a while to Schiphols ATC (as far as I know the only european atc
available on the web) and it's astonishing how much of their R/T is just
redundant, over and over the same stuff, just tying up the airwaves.

out of fourteenhundred climbing to
fiftyfive."

Well, that's just sloppy... ;-)

That's just a minor nit, though - US radio traffic is
full of non-standard stuff.

I don't know exact numbers but there's a substantial percentage of
US-Airline pilots, that have never flown outside US-Airspace and the
only thing they know and subsequently teach to others is yankspeak. When
I flew the islands, you won't believe how many US Airline Pilots weren't
familiar with the term line-up and wait. ;-)

But you can say one thing about Yankspeak: It's very efficient.

Cheers,
Jens

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