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Originally Posted by seagull  I wasn't responding to your post. I think there are times when it IS appropriate to put it into an intial call, and that is when you would otherwise have to make an additional call to request what you want. Unless I am talking to "radio", meaning a non-ATC person who is relaying to the actual controller, I tend to try to eliminate the number and length of the transmissions. I was fairly clear as to when I use it. I don't follow the AIM (or, PANS-OPS) comm exactly, so I will say "hello" in the native language of the agency I'm talking to, but I also won't do things that I KNOW irritate a lot of controllers, like saying "with you"! |
Okay, sorry...I read too much into what you were saying!
And, yes the bolded part is my entire goal every time I hit the transmit button.
And I totally agree with not saying "with you", "level", and other nonsense phrases that add nothing to any transmission other than more words.