Originally Posted by
triadic
One of the reasons that 126.7 can be cluttered is that many pilots just talk too much. Making 6 or 8 calls around the circuit is a waste of breath for no good reason and as for making calls on the area frequency, it seems that those that promote this practice have little or no idea on what happens in the outside world and what the risks or unintended consequences might be!
Triadic,
In the Sydney area, and probably elsewhere in Australia, you can ultimately lay this at CASA's door, as well.
It come about because of the "pingya" system of training and checking, where students and biennial review candidates are instructed that they must make "all the suggested calls" all of the time, regardless of actual traffic, so "they can't pingya".
Tootle pip!!