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Cub Driver wrote:
Now, I was calling the runway as 02, like in "....33Xray, turning left base, runway Zero-Two, Inyokern." Over the radio comes a voice to admonish me that, "...there is no zero in front of the two." Never wanting to rankle a fellow pilot, I dropped the zero -- well, most of the time, anyway. Thirty-year-old habits are hard to break. Does it matter? Is there a protocol for this? Note that Zero Two is a particular case, since the reciprocal is Two Zero. The locals may have found (as I find) that there's a tendency to confuse these two. My home aport is 02/20, and I have learned to say Runway Two when landing to the north, and Two Zero when landing to the south. I find it's a great help. My home airport (KUZA.. Rock Hill, SC) has runway 02/20 also. I have always prefaced runway two with the zero. Not only that, I include the name of the place twice in a transmission. ("Rock Hill traffic, Cessna 417 entering a left downwind for runway zero two, Rock Hill.") I know the purists don't approve, but i think of how many times I've listened to an announcement on the radio where the location name was lost in transmission... either stepped on or I wasn't paying attention. Besides, what's an addition two words in the interest of clarity? -- Mortimer Schnerd, RN VE |
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