The importance of a full initial call to an ATCU
Hi everyone,
I thought it was about time I got some answers to a niggly little question thats been on my mind for quite a while.
I'm well aware that the full initial call when passing your details to a unit are generally taught along the TR PACER lines. However, I'm nearly at QXC stage and have all along been taught to use a slightly abbreviated form which was highly advocated by my school.
Say on a flight from Filton to Shobdon, it would be something like this:
'G-BRBB is a PA28 out of Filton inbound to Shobdon, currently overhead Hereford, at 2700ft on 1011, request join information'
I've flown all around Bristol class D airspace, up to Coventry, Shobdon, Brize Norton etc and it seems to work fine. Is it really necessary to include your flight rules and heading (which should be obvious from your routing information and position report).
Particularly on a busy frequency, it seems to me that controllers prefer the concise form, and it certainly suits me as a solo student pilot where a long winded, planned out call can take my attention away from more important things (ie maintaining lift :0)
Happy flying,
BirdSeed22