From memory the books only require a prompt for a position report now
From memory also, the books don't require the proliferation of Good mornings, afternoons, evenings, good nights, g'day's, see youse later, thanks, please, cheers. But it stlll happens under the guise of being polite or that everyone from ATC to pilots use these terms. In other words, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em
Interestingly, these niceties - if you choose to call them that - were never in evidence during domestic operations in Australia (apart from Qantas International who copied it from overseas practices) and seemed to come into vogue circa 1989 after foreign carriers flocked to our shores. Suddenly the usually crisp and concise Australian AIP radio procedures vanished from our domestic airwaves to be replaced by superfluous "stuff" which has remained ever since...
