Duplication of QNH on Clearance callup
With the already congested status of all frequencies, in particular clearance del., might I ask why the need has emerged for the seemingly redundant callout of QNH in addition to the ATIS identifier most recently monitored. I thought that copying the ATIS, and confirming it on initial callup, conveyed that the requisite info, ie wx status - and QNH - had been received?
Seems that rather than making radio calls more succinct and clearing airspace for denser communications, we seem to be on a trend to make them more verbose and redundant.