Being the topic starter we seem to have gotten a bit sidetracked...most unusual for this web page...
Maybe if the R/T from the pilots was as per ICAO then the controllers would/might know what was going on???
Just a thought......
Knowing a bit about the RO scene, I must say I've had no problems with them. Actually like the way they operate.
I see FQQ was at it again bashing all those un-necessary words about the Hawkes Bay region again.