"Tony Cox" wrote in message
ink.net...
I've had a smoldering dispute with a CFI friend of mine for
years about whether to announce (say) "zero-two" or just
"two" when operating at an uncontrolled field with runways
2-20...

The AIM's radio phraseology section doesn't seem to address this question.
However, an example in AIM 4-3-11c2 refers to "runway six right", which is
the phrasing I've always heard from ATC or ATIS at controlled fields. So I'd
vote for "runway two", more for standardization than for concision.

If you follow the standard practice of beginning and ending a unicom or
multicom transmission with the name of the airfield, then your listeners
will not be left wondering if there was an extra digit after the "runway
two" at the end of your transmission, unless they fail to hear the
concluding mention of the airfield.

--Gary