Where in the NOTAM does it say to "keep yer dang mouth shut"??
It doesn't say that, word for word... They're nicer about it than I am.
But yes, it says it very nicely and gently right in the piece you quoted:
No verbal responses are required.
And yes, there are times where it is appropriate to talk on the radio:
If you do not understand the ATC instructions, or need clarification, request instructions on frequency.
I don't see "if you don't like your runway assignment" among the exceptions there or on any other page.
I stand by my previous statement (sorry you don't like it). If there is little to no traffic, it is perfectly fine to request another assignment.
You don't know if there's little to no traffic, and what else the controllers are up to. All you know is what you can see in front of you and what you hear - I'll give you the scenario below.
In fact the 2 times I have done the controllers happily obliged.
It may sound like they "happily obliged" but they know that the best way to get back on track is to just say "Approved as requested" to get you out of their hair and come up with a new plan for the traffic behind you because you screwed theirs up. And yes, I have seen them do the opposite and say "unable" and then have the pilot make the request AGAIN.
The controllers did not "ask" me anything. How is it "sending them further down the tubes" or "clogging up their frequency" when there is little to no traffic?
Go out to Fisk on the ground when it's busy and watch them. You can't possibly know everything that is going on from your cockpit.
Here's a scenario I've personally seen from the ground at Fisk: Aircraft arrives at Fisk a couple miles after the previous one. ATC assigns them to follow the tracks to 27 and "monitor tower" just as THREE airplanes all arrive simultaneously, one just over the top of another and the third coming from a slightly different direction (maybe GPS direct instead of over the tracks). The pilots present (and probably the controllers!) are gasping and just as the guy on the radio tries to deconflict the planes that all just arrived, the guy they just sent to 27 keys up the mic and asks if he can have 36. Controllers groan. When the transmission finishes, the controller immediately "happily obliges" with "approved as requested" and then launches into deconflicting the remaining traffic. He did a masterful job, sending the "GPS" guy on a 360 and splitting the other two between the tracks and the road while another controller picked up the phone to call the south Tower position and let them know that there's two coming down the road with less than a half mile so they probably need to split them between 36L and 36R (and hope nobody's coming from the Warbird arrival right around then since they're usually given the 36s and somebody would have to go around, which is a bit more difficult to handle when the sky is already full of airplanes...)
And then he hands the mic to a third controller 'cuz he needs to take a breath.
So yeah.
KEEP. YOUR. DANG. MOUTH. SHUT. Unless you actually have a *need* for assistance, or you didn't understand what they told you, or you're a flight, or any of the other things you need to actually call ATC for. Requesting the other runway isn't a need unless you aren't capable of landing on the assigned one in the wind conditions that are present, in which case you probably shouldn't be flying into OSH at all.
