Agree with above, in Primary, learn it the way they teach, as not to un-necessarily skylight yourself as being a "been-there-done-that." There is always someone that's gone through Primary with more experience than you.........trust me....so just play the game, and once you get to Advanced, brevity will be more allowed and accepted, and only one Mr. F in the Sim building will say anything about your comm, mostly because he's about 20 years out of date.
As for reporting 3 down and locked, OPNAV requirement? Can't remember where it's at, but it is a requirement.
Good afternoons, Good evenings, all that jazz. I trained myself to use them in the civilian world because for some reason I'd key the mike and the words, UH, or AND, would always come out, just for a 1/10 of a second before making my radio call.
Here's a good one, VHF or UHF if you got both? Though the silence is nice on UHF, and everyone isn't hearing how awesome you sound talking through your O2 mask, I still think VHF always is the best way. You get global SA on who your're following, where other traffic is, and finally...you're not stepping all over the VHF traffic like when your on UHF, which in my opinion, makes us..the military...sound shiatty. As for the SA part, it's like flying in countries where all the radio calls are made in Spanish except for the ones directed towards you, you really lose that SA about where everybody is and such, especially IFR.
