I think this is a dumb procedure
My company has a procedure where by when cleared for climb to a flight level we set alt's to std even well below the transition level or on decent we set dest qnh when way above transition. no one in the company can tell me why we do it. my frustration arises when cleared to an alt on decent with a low/high qnh then atc ask us to report passing flight level - pnf has to do mental conversion before being able to respond.
does any other company have to do this