Getting a call in to ATC early on has another side to it: Emergency Turn Procedures are company specific although at a guess, most companies have pretty similar ones because everyone is trying to avoid the same obstacles. On paper, ATC don't know what those procedures are so having aviated and navigated it would be a right bummer if you followed the ETP only to meet the Copper Chopper working just to the north of the centreline because everybody was expecting this chap to go south neatly avoided by having communicated! A good reason to listen out and build a situational awareness of where and what others are doing. Difficult in Spanish or French but that's another thread!
Any ATC comment on knowledge of ETPs?
As an irrelevant aside, both guys are fairly new in their respective seats I believe. Well done guys.