Clearedtoenter
... All this blar blarr on the radio often just goes to clutter up the air waves. and is supefluous to the average VFR anyway ....
Also, on the average Centre frequency, we are often mixing it with Qantas, Garuda Virgin, United or whoever and I'm sure they are delighted to hear all these excessive blar blar blar calls ...
Excellent points. The risk of collision is minimal in our sparsely populated airspace in places like FNQ and the top end. It seems that we are often just cluttering up the airwaves with superfluous radio calls because thats what we have always done!
VFR without a radio in G is common both here and in the US where they do not have these meaningless broadcasts which from my experience DO clutter the airwaves. If VFR aircraft want some situational awareness of the enroute IFR traffic it is quite easy to simply monitor the Centre frequency (like they do in the US) to build a situational awareness picture of the descending IFR traffic.