Yeh, point taken Ferris. But since the airspace I was generally vectoring aircraft in (thats that one vector I did every 3 weeks!!) had a base of FL200, terrain clearance was never a great concern to be honest.
YDFD, yeh I've thought that as well. "ABC track direct SHJ, resume own navigation", "Confirm that is direct from present position?", "No, I would like you to track direct from the postion you were 5 minutes ago????"
Off the topic, but a pet hate of mine here, especially with the Indian pilots, is everything they readback is finished with a "confirm?". Now my understanding is that by reading back the clearance/requirement/instruction, unless I correct them in any way that is confirming that the readback is correct. Ok every now and then when their is real confusion, but every single instruction they get.."confirm???" Arrgggghhh.