Was sitting number 2 or 3 today for RWY22 at, and a beautiful fleet bipe was on his way into the pattern. He was anouncing all of his calls the proper way, begning and ending them with "Santa Paula." Then damn leader of Chinese Airforce (a couple of guys who own CJ-9's) starts telling the guy not to finish with "Santa Paula," and stops just short of harassing the guy.
Some people are so overconcerned with themselves and their time, that they can't put up with the extra .7 seconds it takes to make a proper radio call. On 22.9, at SZP, we sometimes hear guys useing the wrong freq. for Auga Dulce, so hearing the name of the airport realy helps.
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Some people are so overconcerned with themselves and their time, that they can't put up with the extra .7 seconds it takes to make a proper radio call. On 22.9, at SZP, we sometimes hear guys useing the wrong freq. for Auga Dulce, so hearing the name of the airport realy helps.
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I think it's definitely proper to announce the airport of use on a CTAF because there are so many shared frequencies in the valley and the uncontrolled strips out on the coast. Besides, what happens if you don't catch it at the beginning of the TX. I hate just entering on downwind at a couple of the places out here and just hearing the tail-end of the announcement for somebody else turning downwind because we have way too many runways that are all on the same mag heading.
