READ THE BLOODY AOI! Give your callsign, your passing level, and your type. That's it! No need to give your cleared level, the ATIS, the QNH, your squawk, your blood type, sexual preference, and on and on.
Doesn't the DXB arrival ATIS say something along the lines of 'on first contact with approach advise ATIS received'?
On one of the other matters I reckon going on 50% of the people I fly with don't listen out before pressing the t*t on frequency change. Just how did they get this far in this job without being put right? Why did they start doing it in the first place?
Another thing, do I have to listen to the other guy give our squawk code, and with one radiostar recently the next waypoint too, on every single frequency change all the way from the UAE up to Europe and further. Why do these people do this?
EK by the way.