Originally Posted by
Fl1ingfrog
Turning RT into a chat room is a disease of our time and there can be no end of it. The advantage if required of knowing the type is perhaps with ATC who can employ binoculars to look out the window.
"Golf" is one syllable. "November" is 3 syllables. "Archer" is 2 syllables. "Carbon Cub" is 3 syllables. There is, for me in USA, no reduction in transmission length for the using country prefix rather than a type description and "Archer" is shorter than "November". I am required to include "Experimental" in my first call with the Carbon Cub.
In USA giving the aircraft type in the initial call saves the otherwise inevitable "Say aircraft type".
My situation awareness is greatly enhanced by knowing what aircraft types are in, or joining, the traffic pattern (circuit if you prefer). Where I fly it's quite common to have a mix that includes business jets, L-39 Albatros, Tucano, Archers, Warriors, Seminoles, and occassionally a B-17, B-25, or B-29.