In the spirit of Peter’s request for new and interes…, well, new, topics, when you are on the radio in a single crew aircraft, do you describe yourself as “I” or “we”.
Does it make any difference whether you have pax?
In what context do you use the pronouns?
I am not aware of any standard/ICAO phraseology which requires the use of either “I” or “we”. For example, one often hears " we have the traffic in sight" but it really should only be “traffic in sight”.
“May it please the controller, we have traffic in sight.” while wearing a wig of course.
I don’t think you need any pronouns, as what next said, impersonal phrases should do just fine. I have also never addressed the ground station with “you”.
I used the phrase “We have a program to go” when informing ATC that we wanted to do several training approaches during my training, with the instuctor on board. I don’t know how I would say that with an impersonal phrase.
“I” am always at one with the aircraft so “we” go around together, reminding me of that humourous brief exchange with ATC.
Yea, my plane and I :) So I suppose it’s us.
Some ATCO’s have humour indeed (well, probably most of them but not all show it on the frequency). I once requested full runway lenght at an airport where you usually take off from mid runway because of heavy /being at max take off weight, to which he proceeded to add “Heavy” to my callsign… Long time and the airplane in question was a C150. Got quite some laughs from the passing airliners. Vienna I believe it was.
You definitely can avoid using pronouns, but people don’t, which is what I was talking about.
The shorter, the better, I think: “Traffic in sight … registration …”
@Timothy
Uh… slow day you’re having today???
:)
