"John Harper" wrote in
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In the UK it is mandatory and they will prompt you if you don't read
it back. I guess Canada operates to the same procedures as the UK.


I realize that I have not completed training yet... but in Canada, under
VFR, my understanding is that pretty much NOTHING needs to be read back
EXCEPT:

....instructions to hold-short (or cross) runways during taxi (must be
specifically itemized in the taxi instructions, and must be read back)
....LAHSO clearances.
....anything else only whenever read-back requested by ATC.

Maybe my training will uncover more, as it progresses, but to date (and from
what I have read), those are the only MANDATORY requirements.

Where I fly (busy satellite within major class C area), you pretty much
never hear an altimeter (or even a landing clearance) read back. Always
acknowledged..., but rarely read back.