Is it really required to call final on the radio before you are permitted to land a plane? A bigger problem with radios is that people rely on them instead of looking out of the window.......
A shame it's a criminal offence to dare to listen to aircraft radio transmissions in some parts of the world, some carefully selected frequencies streamed on the Internet would be a good learning tool. If I'm away from my home airport for some time I always listen to tower/approach frequencies on the Net before I head out to fly. Just gets me back into the swing of things..