Any chance ATC in DXB can catch up with the real world and drop the necessity to;
1. State Star, type, ATIS, QNH (isnt it implied you have it by default of the ATIS!?), SPD assignment.
2. Contact tower on taxi-out instead of monitor.
3. State SID flying when leaving DXB
4. Call LOC established
5. Check in with tower instead of monitor on final
All completely unnecessary 95% of time.
The amount of unnecessary R/T clutter by stating the obvious is puzzling. And to articulate the point, the busiest terminal radar environments in the world will ignore or berate you for telling your life story on check-in.
For example:
Checking in with NY centre. (sometimes call sign only)
"Emirates 123 descending 12000 with yankee"
"Emirates 123 Roger"
Checking in with DXB:
"Emirates 123, descending 12000 on the the Desdi four victor, Boeing seven seven Lima, QNH one zero one three with information Yankee"
"Emirates 123 QNH one zero one three, yankee is current, descend 12000'"
"Descend 12000 on QNH one zero one three"
....at this point I want to tear my hair out. What is the problem here?
F.