In article ,
Marty Shapiro wrote:

Again, from an old tour of Bay Approach, Bay said they prefer you give
them the whole spiel on initial call up, - ie. Bugsmasher 12345 4,500 over
LVK landing SJC with delta or Bugsmasher 12345 off RHV 1,500 climbing 4,500
VFR TVL request radar services. But they told me other facilities prefer a
short call, ie. Bugsmasher 12345 off RHV squawking VFR request.

I've tried both the full spiel and "Norcal Approach, Bugsmasher
12345 VFR Request" for the initial call and have found that the
second form works much better. The first always ends up with 20
questions, since the controller wasn't ready to get all my details.

John
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