ref +10 just to add to your reply some time ago!! The use of "to" as in Climbing TO xxx is no longer ICAO the word TO is ommitted from the transmission due to confusion with TWO because TO and TWO sound the same.
And if flying through Europe you will see how important standard exact ICAO phraseology is !!
BlogAir 1 CLIMBING FL TWO ZERO ZERO it is NOT CLIMBING TO TWO ZERO ZERO!!
point 2. the word is DESCENDING NOT DESCENT.
phraseology in the present . I.e climbing,descending,maintaining,joining,heading,leaving, NOT LEFT because again this can be confused with a direction not a level leaving!!
Australia is a distant land and like our animals our radio telephony procedures have evolved into a very diverse and interesting mixture of procedures which can only be corrected by EVERY training dept including flying schools ensuring its students and employees are 100% hot on radio procedures otherwise myths passed down from daddy to son will always continue.
Well off my soap box now!!
