Riddle me this, pilots

"Gary L. Drescher" wrote:
A question just occurred to me, Chip. Might it not get a slightly quicker
response from the pilot if your voice sounded urgent rather than
professionally-bored?

One of the most imporant things in a crisis is to stay calm, and to
project an aura of calmness so others do the same. Once you let your
voice start to show emotion, it's all over.

Didn't you ever see Apollo-13? The whole damn spaceship is falling
apart around them and they're doing their "Houston, we've got a problem"
thing in the same tone of voice they'd use to report what they had for
lunch.

This is a human-factors question that I don't know
the answer to, but it seems plausible that an urgent tone would be helpful

You're right, it is a human factors thing. There is a certain "calm,
cool, in command of the situation" persona that you want to project,
because that's what people react best to.

especially for the typical low-time pilot who has read about traffic alerts
but never actually received one before.

Quick lesson in ATC-speak. Words like "alert" and "immediately" are not
to be taken lightly.

"Chip Jones" wrote in message
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The other day, I had an air traffic situation I wanted to bounce off of
the
group. Those of you who don't know me, I'm a Center controller down here
in


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I feel very strongly that ATC has an obligation to track these rogue idiots.
Controllers may be a passenger/pilots someday too. You dont have to prove
anything, just get them on the phone and advise them that they may wish to
review the rule book before playing in your backyard. It should get their
attention.

Unless they are really stupid, they will likely stop the behavior after
realizing big brother was watching their stunt.

SK

"Stuart King" wrote in
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I feel very strongly that ATC has an obligation to track these rogue
idiots.

To what purpose? There is no way to prove the flight conditions were IMC.
Just because one pilot reported being in IMC, especially when everyone else
was VMC, does not prove the pilot in question violated anything.

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Regards,

Stan

I think the logic of what you say is correct but in the heat of things but
is not intuitive to a pilot who has not been taught this and had the
opportunity to think it out on the ground. The instinctive reaction of a
pilot otherwise is to turn left when he is told traffic is on the right,
even though futher analysis under calm conditions leads to an alternate
conclusion as you noted.

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Richard Kaplan, CFII

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