Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Communication Breakdown
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Human Factors; Procedure
Working the early midnight inbound push; I had a few inbounds with the first straight in to 28L and an E145 angling in from the southeast for 28R and a BE58 inbound from the southwest. I issued traffic to follow on 28L and the traffic for 28R to the BE58. The BE58 reported both aircraft in sight and I cleared him to follow the traffic to 28L and maintain visual separation with the traffic for 28R. The BE58 read the clearance back verbatim; so I went on to the rest of my sequence and switched him to the Tower. It was a week later that I was informed by someone half way across the country that because the BE58 didn't read back his call sign I would be hit with an error. I've been working airplanes for nearly 30 years and training others to work airplanes for most of that time and knowing that someone sitting behind a desk half way across the country will nail me for a Class A; or whatever they call the bad one now; error; I am going to have to change the way I work and how I train others how to work airplanes. The safe; orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic will have to just be the safe and orderly flow of traffic.
TRACON Controller was informed a week after the event that an error occurred because he failed to insure a visual separation clearance response included a call sign.