[blog post] listen before speaking

[Keith Smith]

This is excellent advise from Pat Flannigan, an east coast pilot and blogger I had the pleasure of meeting a few months ago. I came across this older post of his and thought it was worth sharing: http://www.aviationchatter.com/2011/07/ ... -you-speak

It's been said before in many places and many forms, but I think that post summarizes it nicely.

This happens quite frequently on PE....pilots will be told to contact a controller on another frequency. The delay between the freq change and the start of the check in call is often less than a second. It should be considerably longer than that to allow for any other conversations to wrap up.