RNAV or ILS DXB
Arriving at DXB yesterday was a little frustrationg.
Each controller gave us a different expected approach, alternating between ils or rnav for 12L.
Finally (when at 4500') cleared for an intercept for ils 12l my colleague pointed out that we had previously been told to expect the rnav. So the controller changed his mind and said " cleared for the rnav 12L, descend to 2000'".
Are controllers aware that this clearance kind of defeats the point of rnav and makes the workload unnecessarily higher for us. If we're cleared for the approach why give us a descent limit?
What we want is to be cleared to fly the approach as early as possible, perhaps only accepting small speed corrections limitations.
There was no-one close in front of us but departures seemed busy.