"Peter R." wrote:

"Peter R." wrote:

For several weeks now I have been flying to the Dunkirk airport (KDKK, NY
State, US) for business. Most weeks, the weather was VFR for my departure.
However, the last two weeks the weather was IFR and adherence to this
airport's obstacle departure procedure was required.

One other question about this departu Being that it is an uncontrolled
field, I would announce my intention to depart the runway and circle to the
southwest to overfly the airport and depart to the east.

In true IFR weather all of this radio verbiage is probably overkill, no?
There are no VFR aircraft around and there are no IFR aircraft that close
to approaching, given that I was released by ATC. Would it be more concise
for me to simply say "departing rwy 24 to the east?"

This gets down to style ;-) I would say "Departure Runway 24 with a right turn to
proceed east.