"Peter R." wrote in message
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Newps ) wrote:

Keep it to one transmission.

This just goes to show you that different ATC facilities and perhaps even
different controllers within the facility have their preferences.

In the Northeast US, I often hear the VFR one transmission style answered
with the "Calling aircraft, say again." In my experience, this ties up
the frequency much longer than the two transmission style of contacting
ATC
with tail ID, VFR, then waiting for the acknowledgement to continue the
rest of the request.


I agree with Peter also. At any busy ATC facility, you'll often hear the
VFR one-transmission-give-the-whole-spiel-at-once school answered with the
"Calling aircraft, Say again". The odds of a busy controller getting
everything you spit out spot-on in a cold call on initial contact are slim
to none and decrease exponentially with length of message. When a
controller is juggling airplanes, landlines and frequencies at a rapid pace,
cold-call airplane transmissions do not naturally fit into his traffic
"flick". The "flick" is that magical Zen-like state of four dimensional
transmeditation where the controller's mind dwells during a busy air traffic
push.

Pilots can't go wrong with the two-transmission style. "N12345, VFR,
Request" tells the controller everything he/she needs at that moment in time
to instantly determine who you are, what you are, and what you want. He/she
can then determine how to handle you with minimum impact to his/her
operation at hand. Finding out where you are, where you are going and what
you plan on doing on the way there should come later, like when the
controller asks for it.

Chip, ZTL