Phraseology advice
I would be grateful for your thoughts on how best to phrase the message "I do not have the traffic in sight"
Sometimes I am warned of potentially conflicting traffic, I don't see it and respond with 'looking out for traffic'. Then a little later I update my position and want to remind ATC that I still don't have the traffic in sight, and I am getting a trifle anxious about it because I can hear calls to/from it suggesting we must be getting close to each other.
"callsign overhead reporting point, negative traffic in sight" ? Sounds very clumsy and not especially clear.
What do the professionals think?