Before automation when we use to fly with a flight engineer, one of his many roles was to copy the ATIS (Automated Terminal Information Service-arrival weather, landing runway etc) as we arrived into the UK. It often arrived on the aisle stand on a scruffy piece of paper accompanied by the the comment. "There you are-
Pr#t!"
When rounded on for his rudeness the 'Enj' would characteristically give a winning smile and inform us that we needed to 'Please Report Aircraft Type on first contact with the approach.'
Those were the days.......
