Seems to work pretty well most of the time w/ souls involved. Works better than ...

lysace · 2025-11-08T21:26:08 1762637168

The canonical counter-example against voice/audio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NDqZy4deDI

JFK controller tries to communicate with Air China 981

ryandrake · 2025-11-08T21:45:08 1762638308

One of the YouTube commenters contributed some much-needed nuance. JFK Ground added to the confusion by repeatedly refusing to use standard phraseology, and failed to maintain professionalism, getting audibly angry and impatient. Both sides of the radio conversation had problems.

lysace · 2025-11-08T22:23:47 1762640627

Exactly, voice comms has a large number of disadvantages. Thanks for expanding on the point I was making.

tekla · 2025-11-08T21:29:34 1762637374

You mean a situation where a pilot who is supposed to know English in the parlance of global aviation lingo seems to be playing dumb?

lysace · 2025-11-08T21:32:17 1762637537

That is a unique thought.

tekla · 2025-11-08T21:34:26 1762637666

I'm assuming you don't listen to ATC traffic much, and have general HN assumption you just know better than everyone else.

lysace · 2025-11-08T21:48:51 1762638531

Maybe assume less.