anderiv
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
“Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously;”
The 152 could have had a 40 year old radio or a crappy antenna. Who knows. As you pointed out - that 152 is subject to a lot less maintenance scrutiny than commercial airliners are.
The other thing that plays in here is that ATC language is very highly standardized. In any specific phase of flight, the pilot will generally know what to expect next from ATC. This allows them to discern instructions (and read them back for verification) even if the signal is weak. In situations like these, ATC may seem completely unintelligible to people not used to ATC language and patterns.
The radios and antennas on both the aircraft and for ATC are not only of much higher quality but are also positioned as perfectly as possible so as to maximize Tx/Rx performance.
All that to say, the pilots and ATC nearly always experience more clear comms than the general public has access to.
This assumes, of course, that you have administrative access to your email system.
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