ScottM
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iBazinga!
Yesterday as I was heading to Fort Wayne I was getting FF from South Bend Approach. I heard a pilot request direct Knox and a climb up to 9000. ATC cleared him without delay.
A few minuted later ATC called him and told him that he was cleared direct Knox anytime he wanted to turn. The pilot thanked ATC.
So far nothing was really meaning anything to me. I was just heading past OXI aka the Knox VOR myself and thinking that this guy was going to be heading towards me, but higher than I was flying.
A few minuted later ATC calls him again and this times when he will go direct to Knox as he is on a heading of 120 and the Knox VOR is to his rear at a heading of 300.
The pilot responds the he is direct Knox, and then gets a little huffy stating "Knoxville, TN KTYS"
DOH!
ATC then lets him know there is a Knox VOR, it is nearby then, deftly, lets him know that if he had wanted KTYS he should have asked for it.
We are sometimes our own worse enemy, using shorthand like that could of lead to a loss of seperation. Luckily it was a good VMC day and there was little traffic. But this situation was just poor communication by the pilot.
A few minuted later ATC called him and told him that he was cleared direct Knox anytime he wanted to turn. The pilot thanked ATC.
So far nothing was really meaning anything to me. I was just heading past OXI aka the Knox VOR myself and thinking that this guy was going to be heading towards me, but higher than I was flying.
A few minuted later ATC calls him again and this times when he will go direct to Knox as he is on a heading of 120 and the Knox VOR is to his rear at a heading of 300.
The pilot responds the he is direct Knox, and then gets a little huffy stating "Knoxville, TN KTYS"
DOH!
ATC then lets him know there is a Knox VOR, it is nearby then, deftly, lets him know that if he had wanted KTYS he should have asked for it.
We are sometimes our own worse enemy, using shorthand like that could of lead to a loss of seperation. Luckily it was a good VMC day and there was little traffic. But this situation was just poor communication by the pilot.