Does anyone use electronic strips in an environment where traffic just freecalls out of the blue?
We deal with quite a lot of this traffic (mainly VFR) & I can't see it being anywhere near as quick as just handwriting a strip as you go.
Sometimes in the heat of the moment you just make do with the info you have. (might only be a callsign & a level). The idea of compulsory fields without which you can't proceed sounds like a big step backwards. Unless as someone said there will be more ATCO's enslaved to the system.
I hear that no-one at the unit which is to be the UK trial for electronic strips has been to see any of the systems under consideration working. Not even the unit management.
Talk about buying a pig in a poke.