Not enough chatter on the radio rant.

hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:37 pm

Are you all antisocial or just too busy admiring your watches?

rotorfloat · Post by **rotorfloat** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:54 pm

I stopped saying 'Good morning' and 'Thank you'. Think of the countless lives I've saved by decongesting the airways.

MUSICMAAN · Post by **MUSICMAAN** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:25 pm

Honestly people. Good morning, good evening, thank you..................wow, your right.... takes so long to say............ so many syllables!! Nuthin' wrong with being nice, goes a long way.

Four1oh · Post by **Four1oh** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:59 pm

It does go the other way. There's no shortage of the idiots who DON'T make traffic calls, and I've have a few near misses in the middle of seemingly nowhere because I had no idea they were there.

co-joe · Post by **co-joe** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:34 pm

I'm one of those geeks who like to already have the next sector dialed up on the VHF so when whe get the "contact ME now on 13X.XX..." I FLICK! and say "Howdee!"

So the other day we get a freq I've never heard of, followed by another new freq. Wierded out I say..." those weren't the frequencies we were expecting". It turns out YEG ACC allocated 2 new high level frequencies to that sector to relieve workload of the low level controller.

If I weren't such a keener, we'd have never had those new stations written on our HI untill the new PAL's came out on the next pub date. Good thing I like to clog up the airwaves eh?

cinical · Post by **cinical** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:16 pm

I'm one of those idiots that has missed a traffic call......it worked out fine but chock another mistake up for me....

Pachanga · Post by **Pachanga** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 11:33 pm

I'm just one of those idiots.

Walker · Post by **Walker** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 12:46 am

Im starting one of those old fashioned radio shows while on the MF every morning; one of my students has a killer beatbox, so he is AWSOME for making sound effects; were starting a new flash Gordon episode tomorrow if anyone is in Duncan… 122.8! maybe we should simulcast on Vancouver center….. Im sure BA, and CP would like some entertainment after a 13 hr flight.

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:19 am

You can have fun with a flip-flop radio, if someone is monitoring 2 frequencies, you dial them into the active and standby, and hit the transfer button as fast as you can while you talk ...

Pygmie · Post by **Pygmie** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 12:52 pm

co-joe wrote: So the other day we get a freq I've never heard of, followed by another new freq. Wierded out I say..." those weren't the frequencies we were expecting". It turns out YEG ACC allocated 2 new high level frequencies to that sector to relieve workload of the low level controller.

Yep, YEG center has gone to a high/low split on their Edmonton Enroute specialty. Lloyd sector is now a low level sector only, and Jasper is the new high level sector on top of it.

The same thing is being done to Calgary Enroute as well, apparently, so all you SHAWI ALOMO flights will have a different freq. sometime soon as well. . .

N2 · Post by N2 » Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:21 pm

I'd chat more but I'm too busy when in the air reading "How to fly in 5 easy steps"

Walker · Post by **Walker** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:36 pm

I think im going to hook up my Ipod to the mic jack and start giving the people on terminal something to listen to... suggestions for playlists anyone?

mellow_pilot · Post by **mellow_pilot** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:35 pm

Hedley wrote:You can have fun with a flip-flop radio, if someone is monitoring 2 frequencies, you dial them into the active and standby, and hit the transfer button as fast as you can while you talk ...

grounded · Post by **grounded** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:19 am

For music suggestions, I'm a fan of singing/humming the classic REM song " it's the end of the world as we know it" Really freaks out my FO when I start that when we're dodging CBs. Other than that, a little Johnny Cash is always good. Nine Inch Nails, Three days grace, Seether will all get you a nice fine for the grown-up words in the songs. Buck Cherry's "crazy bitch" would be epic.

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:33 am

My fav is "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" - the guy in the right seat doing the bass "Owimboyway, Owimboyway", and left seat goes for the falsetto and keys the mike button: "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight".

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 8482777276

For dodging Cb's, esp at night this is my personal fav. If you bellow it out loud enough, you can freak everyone else on the airplane out:

Well its been building up inside of me
For oh I don't know how long
I don't know why
But I keep thinking
Something's bound to go wrong