RPTR CLAIMS CLRNC DELIVERY DID NOT INCLUDE THE SID IN HIS CLRNC BUT EXPECTED HIM TO MAINTAIN 3000 FT.

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RECEIVED IFR CLRNC FROM FXE CLRNC DELIVERY. READBACK FOLLOWING CLRNC: 'RADAR VECTORS JET RTE 85; HOMME INTXN; DIRECT LBV VOR; BRIDGE 2 ARR; 14000; 119.7.' CTLR STATED HE DID NOT HEAR DEP CTL FREQ; SO I REPEATED IT '119.7.' HE REPLIED; 'READBACK CORRECT.' PRIOR TO DEP CAPT QUESTIONED ASSIGNED ALT OF 14000. I INDICATED THAT THAT WAS WHAT WAS ASSIGNED BY THE CTLR WHICH SEEMED TO SATISFY HIS CURIOSITY. AFTER DEP FROM FXE AND SUBSEQUENTLY TRYING TO ESTABLISH INITIAL CONTACT WITH MIAMI DEP INFORMED MIAMI THAT 'WE WERE OUT OF 3500 FOR 14000.' MIAMI'S REPLY WAS 'WHAT MADE YOU THINK THAT YOU COULD CLB TO 14000; MAINTAIN 3000.' MY REPLY TO THE CTLR WAS THAT WE HAD READBACK THE ALT INSTRUCTION TO THE PREVIOUS CTLR. FORTUNATELY WE WERE VMC AT THE TIME AND IT APPEARED AS THOUGH THERE WERE NO SEPARATION VIOLATIONS AT THE TIME. HOWEVER; THIS SIT SIMPLY SHOWS HOW HUMAN COM CAN DEFINITELY BE THE WEAKEST LINK IN THE CHAIN OF SAFE ACFT CTL. IN RETROSPECT SEVERAL 'WEAK LINKS' CAN BE IDENTIFIED. DEP INSTRUCTIONS ARE READ WITH SUCH SPD THAT AT TIMES ONE WONDERS IF THERE IS A CONTEST BTWN THE CTLR AND PLT TO SEE WHO CAN SAY THE INFO FASTER. BOTH PARTIES TAKE PRIDE IN BEING ABLE TO RECEIVE AND GIVE INFO BOTH ACCURATELY AND QUICKLY; AND AT TIMES VITAL INFO IS LOST THROUGH EITHER THE SPD OR VOLUME IN WHICH INFO IS EXCHANGED. IN THIS PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCE THE FORMAT IN WHICH I READBACK THE DEP CLRNC WAS THE 'FAST AND DIRTY' APCH WHERE YOU READBACK THE 'NUMBERS' AND DROP THE WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NUMBERS. I FEEL THIS METHOD IS TOO FAST FOR THE CTLR TO ADEQUATELY ENSURE THAT THE NUMBERS ARE A COMPLETE AND ACCURATE CLRNC. ALSO UNIQUE TO THIS SIT WAS A PHONE CALL BTWN THE CAPT AND THE CTLR WHO ISSUED THE CLRNC; UPON OUR ARR. THE CAPT SAYS THAT THE CTLR IMPLICITLY FELT THAT THE SID ALT RESTRICTION OF 2000 FT APPLIED IN THIS SIT WITHOUT HIM HAVING ISSUED THE SID AS PART OF THE IFR CLRNC. ACCORDING TO THE CAPT THE CTLR ROUTINELY DOES THIS BECAUSE HE FEELS THAT A LARGE NUMBER OF PLTS DO NOT POSSESS A COPY OF THE TEXTUAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SID. AGAIN; THIS INFO IS SECOND-HAND BY WAY OF A PHONE CONVERSATION WHICH I WAS NOT A PART OF. HOWEVER; I WAS A PLAYER IN THE ACTUAL OCCURRENCE OF THIS SPECIFIC SIT; AND I MUST SAY THAT IF IN FACT THIS IS THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ATC CTLR INVOLVED (IMPLICITLY ISSUING SIDS WITHOUT STATING SO) THAT THIS IS A GROSS ERROR ON HIS PART. NOT TO GET SIDETRACKED ON THE ISSUE OF LAYING BLAME; I FEEL THAT A REMEDY TO THIS SIT WOULD INCLUDE THAT PLTS USE A READBACK FORMAT WHICH DOES NOT DELETE 'THE WORDS' FROM THE 'NUMBERS' DURING THEIR READBACK OF IFR CLRNCS.