Thanks for the reply, Roffa, and I'm relieved to hear what should have happened! Unfortunately in this instance the lack of climb instruction added to the confusion at a time of high workload and increasing stress
As an aside, chap on Director freq was speaking unbelievably quickly yesterday and we missed several calls for us earlier in the approach. I don't know whether he was new or feeling stressed but his rapid delivery was actually making things slower rather than quicker!
Was amused when Gnd told us that the helicopter was higher priority traffic than us.... until we transmitted the Pan
