On approach & final, with one pilot rather than two, and plenty going on, I invariably forget that.
This is something that the VCP doesn't do - it doesn't set the tower frequency and it doesn't contact the tower 'when established'. Is there an option for that somewhere that I somehow missed? Or could that option be included? If the VCP has been taking care of all ATC communication till that point (I fly in Mode 2 from lining up for takeoff till the end of the flight), shouldn't it logically be doing this task too? It's easy to forget that I, as pilot, need to do that bit myself (and, as I say, all to often therefore end up on the arrival runway not having done it, which messes up ground messages of course).
Thanks.