TangoWhiskey
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I was listening to my scanner the other day, and heard a pilot contact Regional Approach with this call:
"Regional Approach, Cessna 123XY, request."
"Cessna 3XY, Regional Approach, go ahead with your request."
"Regional Approach, 3XY is a Cessna 182 five miles south of Meacham, 2500, VFR to Pecan Plantation, requesting VFR flight following, pressing IDENT now."
Seems to me he was "anticipating" the controller asking him to IDENT, though Approach usually has you do this AFTER being given a new code, if at all. I fully expected the controller to "hand slap" the pilot for cluttering his scope with an unrequested bloom, but he didn't.
I know we have some controllers on the board, and I think it's not accepted or documented practice to IDENT before being requested to do so--in fact, I could see it causing a problem for the controller if he'd already asked somebody else in the same general area to IDENT. I'm curious if the controllers on this board would find an "anticipated IDENT" helpful or irritating.
"Regional Approach, Cessna 123XY, request."
"Cessna 3XY, Regional Approach, go ahead with your request."
"Regional Approach, 3XY is a Cessna 182 five miles south of Meacham, 2500, VFR to Pecan Plantation, requesting VFR flight following, pressing IDENT now."
Seems to me he was "anticipating" the controller asking him to IDENT, though Approach usually has you do this AFTER being given a new code, if at all. I fully expected the controller to "hand slap" the pilot for cluttering his scope with an unrequested bloom, but he didn't.
I know we have some controllers on the board, and I think it's not accepted or documented practice to IDENT before being requested to do so--in fact, I could see it causing a problem for the controller if he'd already asked somebody else in the same general area to IDENT. I'm curious if the controllers on this board would find an "anticipated IDENT" helpful or irritating.