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........... you find that there is NO requirement to talk to anyone else other then ATS and known traffic. Right or wrong, I dunno.

Do you look behind before passing in your car? Of course! That is just good practice and so is the "additional" calls made for the benefit of VFRs.

Take the airmanship side of things out of it for a while, and....

Maybe so, but that supports the theory that airmanship is not taught any more!!

Some things are just GOOD PRACTICE for one of a million reasons!

Common Sense, Good Practice and Airmanship all go together and are additional to what is written in the books. Sadly not many trainers teach outside the book these days...