Gulf News, the main thrust of my comment wasn't the not calling 10 minutes before ORSAR, cos that is something we are used to, as we are also used to all the aircraft calling on every other frequency other than 120.7. What I was getting at with the example I gave of the UAE Cargo flight was that instead of saying "UAE Centre, UAE 9961, FL370", and then we tell them to squawk ident at the same time as giving them their clearance, and the whole process takes 15 seconds, instead they say all the stuff I said they say, and we take up to a minute to get through all that we have to get through. Not knowing local procedures is forgivable, and in fact I am sure that the documentation needs to be looked at, but not reporting FL on first contact, and not reporting level passing when on climb or descent, is not forgiveable. You find the good pilots will switch on and listen out harder when they hear you are busy, and it can make a busy complex sequence run smoothly. Maybe we should make more of an effort to actually thank the good guys for doing the right thing rather than just getting on here to moan about the lazy ones.