Druglord: Flight following is in stage 3 mate. Personally I don't understand it, we have a form on the console we have to fill out if a VFR talks on "our" frequencies (and, OZBUSDRIVER, I have no intention of putting anything on ours, but somebody has already indicated an aircraft called MGC has been politically whinging & whining, but this may be apocryphal.) Yet at some time in the future when the VFR have been weaned off talking on the radio they will be cordially invited to come back and get the sort of service they lost in 1991 (in radar coverage anyhow)
27. An on-request radar flight following service for VFR aircraft will be available on a sector specific and workload-permitting basis.
34. An on-request radar flight following service for VFR aircraft will be available on a sector specific and workload permitting basis.
What seems even stranger is that at the same time we are supposed to start offering the services we have denied VFR for over a decade we will WITHDRAW the same service to IFR
30. Directed traffic information services for en-route IFR aircraft will be withdrawn.
The history of NAS so far is that anything that is deemed unworkable or unimplementable even by the NASIG is deferred to a later NAS stage or reinterpreted repeatedly untill "somebody" is happy. Sooner or later they'll run out of stages....