As a pilot, there came a point early on in my training when I had to start learning how to properly talk on the airplane radios during flights. The school's syllabus normally had students begin making their own radio calls pretty early on in the training, like in the first week or two after their first couple of flights. For me, it took a good month before I even so much as *touched* the mic (a push-to-talk style of button, really). At the small uncontrolled airport (meaning no control tower) I was training at, several other uncontrolled airports in the area shared the same frequency for making traffic calls when you were flying around. This meant any radio call I made was also being heard by any other airplane's radio that was tuned into the same frequency, so every time I uttered a word on the radio anywhere from 5-100+ people would be hearing me speak. I still recall this thought being *absolutely terrifying,* and as such it was probably several months before I got anywhere near being even semi-fluent with my radio calls. Long story short, I gutted it out. Initially I developed a workaround of starting all of my radio calls with "hey," as it was an easier sound for me to say (GO GO GADGET WORKAROUND WORDS!) as in "*Hey* Newton traffic, Cessna 909HC downwind runway 35, Newton." It was a crutch but it was crutch that worked, right up there with artificial sweeteners or cocaine. Eventually I got so used to making radio calls that I no longer needed the "hey." These days I don't even think about speaking on the radios during flights, mainly because the phraseology and order in which the calls are made is almost always the same. I've been flying now for almost 15 years as part of a professional career, and it's all so ingrained in my head that what once was a terrible hangup is now a non-issue. I realize it's a million times easier said (literally!) than done, but you can either allow your stutter to be a massive, life-altering, soul-warping personal issue or let it be something as minor and inconsequential as a conversation piece! For me the key has been and is continuing to be a matter of embracing my stutter and getting it out in the open as much as I can rather than always trying to hide it as part of an intense, stressful effort to speak "normally" like everyone else.