shortcut_approved. Hello there. Sometimes short cuts are not approved!
If you are required to write down every clearance and frequency change then such a requirement on the part of your company presumably forms part of its SOPs.
It matters neither a whit nor a jot what anyone else thinks or did with another operator.
An SOP is not necessarily the only way to do things and it can often deviate from common sense and even from a manufacturer's aircraft Flight Manual. That's not the point. It is part of your company's modus operandi. You are stuck with it and the day you're nipping along nicely into somewhere like Paris and have to ask them to: 'Say again frequency' you'll have a lot of egg on your face-if you have even been able to break in to ask for that which control will have assumed you would write down anyway. Now I must QSY. Bye.
