And much is down to the individual controller, some people will ask for a squawk with ident some (like me) just ask for the squawk. Personally I think the ident is unecessary as seeing the discrete squawk is enough, if it callsign converts before I see the code I just use the cursor to temporarily de-select the code and check it - maybe some of the...ahem..older generation of people I work with (no names almost prof) perhaps dont know that can be done!!
