I don't wish to upset anyone but I am curious with regard to something that Notso Fantastic posted.
He writes
He should not have identified the flight so precisely. It is a complete non-event, but the pilots should not be so easily fingered for doing the correct safe thing, no doubt perfectly competently.
Why should it matter if they are "fingered" if they are doing exactly what they are trained to do? Who would they be trying to hide the GA from?
I have seen similar reactions to those above to other innocent GA queries. We (SLF regulars on PPRuNe) know they are a regular thing, we know they are not life threatening, we know that they are fully documented and briefed - but they are out of the ordinary and we are curious.
Some pilots seem to think that us SLF are criticising their actions - not so, we're just curious and where better to ask than here on PPRuNe, where we can ask REAL pilots?
[dons asbestos underpants]
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Fintan, sorry for the thread drift.