Cerbus it's a bit tuff to generalise about one pilots behaviour as being a result of their nationality. The chap you flew with was just plane wrong in some areas and would have been wrong down under too. Oz uses the group number system as well so it would be "two sixteen" there. A PDC clearance is not requested again from ATC in Oz but read back. So he got that wrong also. I flew with a great US guy recently who used "fully ready" for take off and we laughed about what "half ready" might mean....Big deal. It's the individual who makes the errors, nothing to do with their home.