On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 08:20:45 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:

In article ,
Jose wrote:


ATC gives you a clearance and you read it back. You have accepted it.

OK, so how do I acknowledge that I have heard and understood (correctly)
the clearance you have given me, but am NOT accepting it until I can
verify that it won't take me sixty miles out over the ocean?

Jose

I find "standby for readback" works.


Doesn't solve the problem.

The readback is necessary to insure you have heard it correctly (AND
the controller hasn't erred, which has happened more than once).