I teach all of my Airforce guys to make calls here at a non-towered airport like this: "Del Rio traffic, Cessna 49Q, right down wind, 13, Del Rio traffic."

Today I was coming in from the south so I said "Del Rio traffic cessna 9649Q is 7nm SE inbound for a right downwind runway 13 Del Rio traffic."

Some guy comes on the radio and says "Can you quit saying traffic in all your radio calls? (5 second pause) Yea if you could just stop saying traffic that would be great. Just kind of a pet peeve of mine". I said "well that's who I'm talking to... so in short no." Then it made me start wondering. I dug through the AIM and I couldn't find any real defiinite way to make a radio call outside of a few examples just showing what information must be included. What do you think of my calls?