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"Nick, I disagree with your reasoning. I find lots of C1-3 controllers treating pilots like they are working for them - and yes, we're both users of VATSIM wanting to enjoy a hobby, but you have to remember that as ATC, you're there to help pilots. So I find the practice of not sending .contactmes to a pilot 'because they're supposed to know to contact me' completely wrong. If the pilot doesn't realize that they're in your sector, it's your turn to push the home key and click on the plane. That's it. If you don't do that, and then complain that they never contacted you, I'd consider the controller to be at fault. To me, it's like if you refused to correct wrong readbacks 'because pilots are supposed to understand English!' - if they've read back, say, their assigned altitude wrong, you correct it and move on. You don't wait until they climb more than they should and cause a collision, and then complain that, no, you assigned the correct altitude, it's the pilot who did it wrong!\n \n\n\n\tI understand that with busier positions, you don't have time to bend down to every pilot that doesn't understand something to teach them - something I try to do when I'm on TWR with 2 a/c on the ground. But understand that most sector splits are really complicated -  and it's much easier for you to press a key and actually help the pilot.\n \n"
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