Bottom line: English is not everyone's home language - how would you guys feel controlling in Chinese / Russian / French etc? I agree that a minimum standard needs to be maintained, but a lot of the times certain people (and I'm not going into nationalities here) are just being pedantic at the expense of others.
Fully agree.
In my opinion, I believe pilots and controllers talk too much in this part of the world. Also, there is this silly requirement to pass a lot of information to the controller on the first contact; so much for the need to establish contact first;then, start the exchange.
I actually witnessed the UAE Center Ozzie controller tell off the Indian pilot the other night (a while ago, actually). That particular Indian was very annoying! He would receive the instruction, read it back correctly, pause for a few seconds, and then, ask the controller to confirm the same thing again!!!
We all talk too much in this part of the world. I wonder whether we would survive in areas like O'Hare, JFK, Boston, etc,.
The air traffic in the area is becoming busier by the day and the need to update and modernize the procedures is paramount.
Another annoying habit that is creeping into the Dubai tower system is that of issuing takeoff clearance, ask you to maintain tower frequency and call you back, right at lift off, instructing you to call departures. Keep in mind ATCOs, that at that time, one pilot is concentrated in getting the airplane off the runway and the other, closely monitoring the actions of the PF and the status of the airplane. It is a bad time to be called with instructions for this or that.
