Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
...
I was taught to make calls based on distance rather than approach fix when
practicing approaches in VMC at an uncontrolled airport for just this
reason.


Advisory Circular 90-42F "Traffic Advisory Practices at Airports Without
Operating Control Towers" provides examples of self-announce phraseologies
for various situations. It provides the following for practice instrument
approaches:

"STRAWN TRAFFIC, CESSNA TWO ONE FOUR THREE QUEBEC (NAME-FINAL APPROACH FIX)
INBOUND DESCENDING THROUGH (ALTITUDE) PRACTICE (TYPE) APPROACH RUNWAY THREE
FIVE STRAWN"

Yes, just confirms that the FAA is as dumb in this case as they are in
defining the meaning of being "on final." This announcement has
absolutely no utility at all for a VFR pilot who has had no instrument
approach training. Heck, even an instrument at a strange field would be
clueless unless he had an approach plate handy to pull out and check.

Matt