ALLL RIGGHT...
TIME OUT boys....
:mrgreen:
Eldar,
Opher is a well seasoned Pilot. he has more info and experiance than all of us here put together...
With that, Opher is known, here within VATIL and within Europe (he does EuroControl as well) for his strictness.
Strictness is not a bad thing. Opher does a hell of a job. He does the best that he can and he follows the written rules.
As a controller, when you follow the rules, you expect the pilot to follow as well.
Like it or not, it is YOUR responsibility as the PILOT IN COMMNAD to initiate contact with the controller.
Forget what you had in Hong Kong and the USA and wherever...
In the end of the day, it is the Pilots responsibility to contact ATC..
Ask ANY one of the Washington DC guys who just got their Pilots lisence this year..
They cant enter a CLASS B airspace before THEY contact ATC, once they depart from an airport in Class B airspace (other than the primary airport) THEY, the Pilot must contact ATC as soon as possible.
When you are at the D6 in your 747, when do you contact Ground control?
do you contact him when you are ready for push back? or do you push back and taxi to the KILO and expect him to contact you first?
Same thing.
בן, הכוונה שלי היא שלא קרה לי אף פעם שהייתי צריך לקרוא לפקח לבד (קשר ראשון) בלי שהוא יגיד לי לקרוא לו, בגלל שאין אף אחד שיפנה אותי אליו.
כמובן שזה לא תקף כאשר אני מבקש מירשה.
כמו כן, שלשום ניסיתי לקרוא באופן עצמאי לפקח בשוויץ כאשר נכנסתי למרחב האוירי שלו והוא אמר לי לחכות שהוא יקרא לי.