Merged: Pending clearance??
Been hearing the phrase coming from the pilots of one of our regionals quite frequently, as in "Centre, Rover797, departed YXXX at 30, tracking 360, climbing flight level 250 pending clearance." Is this a case of one pilot hearing some non-standard phraseology and thinking "oh, that sounded cool, I might use it too"?, or is it a direction from the company? And what is the rationale behind it? To an ATC, it's just two superfluous words....