Originally Posted by Mikehotel152
I have recently stopped informing ATC of the new heading when given an instruction to turn a number of degrees, on the basis that they can see it on the Mode S readout and I don't see the point in clogging the airwaves. Fair enough?
Who asked you for the heading in the first place? Who told you to stick the new heading on the end of your readback?
When they want it they specifically ask for it: " turn right ten degrees - report that heading."
These memes get picked up and recycled but it don't make them right.