"
callsign descend to FL290, call radar on 123,425 goodbye" given by the french controllers
all the time the callsign being said very slowly as well as the word descend but then the flight level
together with the frequency in such a rapid manner wizz ze very euh frenchy accent euh...that's unacceptable really, you can give maybe a heading with a frequency change ut certainly not a flight level given the very few margin in a 1000ft RVSM environment.
Otherwise these "with you", "blocked" (just to be smarter than anyone else as
anyway if no answer the controller will repeat and such "blocked" will use RT space), "who's calling?!" that you'll get maybe 50% of the time on first contact with a french controller. And last but not least, ton first contact to an approach controller wou give the information letter from the last ATIS, why would you give the QNH on top as anyway the controller will issue the QNH on first descent to an altitude...the british controllers ask you about it and will issue QNH almost everytime a further descent to an other altitude is given, this is a waste of time as well, believe me, all BA pilots do the same and its a pain when you have 15 airplane to monitor and someone is telling you his life on the VHF, almost giving the numbers of bolts in his aeroplane...
kepp it simple, in modern world, where ATIS gives you the QNH, stop saying that on the frequency, just say "...Aapproach, callsign, passing flight level 200, descending to FL160, information S". the aircraft type is on request by most approach places but anyway the controller has a strip of paper with all the infos which are correct.
Thank you!