When instructed to contact tower for landing, on first contact state your callsign
only please.
The amount of crap that is passed at this stage is mind boggling.
"Sydney Tower, Qantas 2 established ILS 16R leaving 3000" or "Melb Tower, Virgin 123 right base visual approach 34".
The correct call in
ALL circumstances is: "Sydney Tower, Qantas 2"
Finis, nada, zilch, caput, done. Get it?!
All the extra stuff just clutters the frequency and could prevent someone getting away (cleared immediate TO). The tower know where you are and what you're doing. Just please give your callsign when "checking in" with tower. Of all the incorrect readbacks in Oz, this would have to the one done wrong the most.
Rant over.......