Originally Posted by MaxReheat
If I don't get the localiser or the glide I'll tell you.
A-bloody-men to that
Having worked with the phraseology on both sides of the pond, I personally view the "Report LOC established", then after the report "descend on the ILS/Glide Path" as superfluous. Obtaining "confirmation" is all fine and good, but what if it's a false localiser capture? The topic hasn't come up (yet) of "if someone is cleared for an approach, what if they descend straight down minimums/procedure altitude/whatever and not with the glide path". This comes up every so often, and we all usually agree to disagree, or concur there needs to be global conformity.
We don't have quite the same heli-lanes here in YWG (
), but there are times where I've cleared an a/c for an approach with traffic below, and stipulated "descend with the glide, traffic........."