SM4 Pirate
I agree entirely. On VHF you have already established two-way comms, the frequency is usually fairly readable and therefore making a 'request' transmission just adds more radio traffic, when the idea is to keep it to a minimum.
Request comes from HF transmissions I believe, when all the above is a little different.....
A personal interpretation of 'something out of the ordinary' is a personal definition and a case of making up your own phraseology contrary to CAP413. I am as guilty as the next man of having started to copy others non standard phraseologies that I had heard on the radio.....I went through a stage many years ago as an F/O of using the 'with you' saying on initial contact. I now barff at the thought of it! These things come and go as trends and that is the danger, how will someone 'not from round these parts' understand local gingoisms?
PP