Originally Posted by
LookingForAJob
Whilst I generally believe that the UK way, when it differs from ICAO and/or the rest of the world, does things well, the fudges on controlled airspace (and particularly doing control, whatever it might be called in uncontrolled airspace) and calling ATC functions FIS are an abomination which cause confusion and have been causal factors in a good number of incidents.
See ICAO Doc 4444 para 8.11 'The Use of Radar in the Flight Information Service.'
That's the way, in my opinion, we
should be doing it and I'm told is how France and Gerrnany do it.