"Hankal" wrote in message


I fly out of an uncontrolled airport on the cut out of Class C
airspace. Once airborne beneath 1200 feet I contact Approach.
"XXX Approach, Skyhawk 123, departed xyz at 500 feet, enroute to ZZZ
request flight following"
This is one transmission. Hangar talk tells me that is not necessary
to give the whole spiel at once.

I'm not a controller (and this question comes up from time to time so check
the archives you haven't already), but...

My experience is that this varies from facility to facility. If you're
going to give the whole spiel at once, I'd recommend putting "VFR" right
after your tail number. If you don't do this, the controller will be
spending time looking on the scope for your number and not grabbing his
pencil for your request which will probably result in your hearing "Calling
XXX Approach, say again."

Before the DC ADIZ went into effect (basically forcing everybody to be
talking to the controller with a discrete beacon code), I typically used the
"get their attention, then give them your request" method without drawing
the obvious ire of the controllers.

See http://www.avweb.com/news/columns/182635-1.html (about halfway down the
page) for one controller's preference - which happens to coincide with the
AIM.

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John T
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