ThoughtCrime,
You said,
how about "passing XXXX climbing to YYYY"
on CTAF's!!!!
'Passing' call is for Radar environment to ATC! Nobody cares otherwise.
I'd disagree inasmuch as good airmanship dictates that if other aircraft know what level one has left, they can determine whether the threat has passed, or remains.
If I'm inbound and you're outbound and you call climbing to Axxx or FLyyy, I'm going to have to ask your level passing.
If you give your level passing as part of the original call, and you're above me, then there's no need for any further calls.
NFR
Yep, it's cleard visual approach. We can't get upset over it any more as it's mandated as of 8Jun06.
As
RENURPP said, t'other day into Alice some obscure comment (forgotten for the moment what it was) that didn't require a readback was made, and the controller on duty pushed for a readback.
____________________________
And on an aside, when cancelling
SARWATCH the phrase is
BNE/MEL centre, Gove [location], cancel SARWATCH
Not cancel "SAR". In 99.x% of cases one shouldn't have a SAR phase on!