Originally Posted by
H Peacock
We always used RAFAIR during the transit (they did once try to make us use the dreadful ASCOT prefix!).
Why would you be forced to use an ASCOT C/S when that specifically referred to an AT&AAR task (deriving, as it does, from: Air Support Command Operational Tasking)?
RAFAIR (RFR on the Flt Plan with no explanatory note) was for everyone else doing a long transit!