Sorry for jumping in but after reading the excerpt from the US handbook it seems that there is an awful lot of talking to get the landing clearance out early.
Wouldn't it be easier to say "c/s runway 14 number 3" then when the clearance is available "c/s cleared to land" It sounds like there is an amazing amount of traffic info being passed. I guess you would get used to it after a while. I guess I also am confortable with only issuing the one landing clearance at a time. I guess the other thing that doesn't help is the fact that I usually am running a reasonably busy circuit with arrivals and departures and although approach will sequence arrivals they haven't they foggiest what I have in the circuit!
Is there anyone out there who has controlled in more than one country and can comment on/compare the different RT?
RGG