Questions on landing at a towered airport

Tman wrote:


That said, they've always given me "report xxxx" position report request
when inbound, never got vectors from them....

They have a radar to refer to. They are not radar controllers. Pretty
much any class D near a larger class C or B airport will have a scope in
the cab. Get away from a larger radar facility and there's no radar for
that smaller airport to have in the first place. And some airports
bought their own radar and had it added to the system. That's happened
here in Montana.