Falcon Maaaattteeee, I hope your not taking the piss. Turtle; readback of a PDC is mandatory worldwide unless advised otherwise. DCL's however, are text only exchanges, nothing to do with the country, rather the format, refer OMC 3.2.2
On the topic of communications in Dubai;
1) Know the meaning of the instruction "Monitor"
2) On initial departure contact only call sign and altitude passing are required, on arrival the same as above with the addition of aircraft type (why do people announce the ATIS received?)
3) ATC; time to publish a note stating that all aircraft contacting DXB DIRECTOR should use Callsign only, so the poor controller doesn't have to keep issuing the instruction. Also maybe it'd be an idea to include the departure frequency with the clearance and specify an altitude to switch automatically to departures, that should help clear some congestion on tower?
Last edited by scandistralian; 31st May 2014 at 14:28.