Ballstroker
NATS may say their controllers have to do it, but I certainly wouldn't call it "best practice"!
How many bits of information are in:
"After the departing Pan Am 727 on your right, line up and wait 28L at A2E"?
I dislike the new format as a lot of vebiage has been added with no gain in situational awareness. In fact, the numbing process of listening to the information and repeating it all back before it escapes my short term memory means that I often couldn't tell you what I had just said!!
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