On many an occasion!
wb'sSATCO does sem to have taken my comments without the requisite pinch of salt though.
I used to get very cheesed off at ATCUs who tried to shunt us around the North Sea 'for co-ordination' in order for them to give a RAS to some corner-cutting airliner. Indeed, we had looks of incredulity at Wattisham from a visiting pair of Lightnings who learned that we had to go from Wattisham tower to Wattisham Approach to Eastern Radar to Neatishead just to get to the north coast of Norfolk! They wouldn't hear of such nonsense. Airborne on tower, then "Sqn discrete - GO" and that was that until they called Binbrook at Initials!
"What type of service do you require?" How tempting it used to be to say "Nothing - just shut up and let us get on with things our own way!"
Last edited by BEagle; 13th Nov 2004 at 08:03.