Originally Posted by
Dora-9
I'm probably going to get flamed for this, for those who insist on broadcasting their position on every leg of the circuit (even if there's no-one else there), is it necessary to prefix EVERY call with "Springfield traffic..."?
If there appears to be no one in the circuit after I've done the 'joining' call, I'll do just one more: short final, just in case someone's started up after my 'joining' call. I do say ABC short final 'Springfield'.
The reason I still include the location on that short final call is that in the region in which I do most of my flying, you can often simultaneously hear all of the traffic at 4 or 5 locations that use 126.7. On a nice sunny Sunday like today, YTMU will be abuzz, as will YCWR. Then add the occasional traffic at YWWL and YYNG and YCTM. (Mercifully, YTEM has a different CTAF.) Hence my plea for brevity!