Thanks for the reply, and Steven and Mike too.

Canada seems to handle their hand offs very similar to the way the US
does, however they include this phrase in their AIM

"The initial call to Departure control whould contain at least....the
runway of departure..."

Hence you often hear pilots include the runway in the intial contact.
Plus, since the wording is "at least", also the airport of departure,
since there may be more than one that departure control is working.

On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:34:49 +0100, Mxsmanic
wrote:

writes:

I'm not from the US, but just wondering if you depart ifr from an
airport and tower tells you to contact departure, I know that you
check in with callsign, altitude through, and cleared altitude.

But I was wondering if the AIM recommends anywhere also to include the
departure runway and the departure airport too.

They already know that from the handoff. They know your altitude, too, but
you give it so that they can verify that the encoded altitude from the
transponder matches the altitude you see on your instruments.