Along the same lines as the above, would someone care to offer an opinion on the following for me, as an Approach man who hasn't done Area Radar for 26 years & who has already had several conflicting answers!
Traffic inbound to VOR XYZ on Radar Release/Handover, descending to min stack e.g. FL70. Centre gives handover, saying traffic descending to FL70, to be level 10 miles before XYZ.
(Perhaps to deconflict traffic inbound XYZ from a different direction allocated FL80, or standard practice anyway ?)
On first contact, I descend the aircraft to 6000ft altitude. If I have not been given any information on conflicting traffic can I & / or the pilot assume that the restriction is now cancelled, or, as PPrune Radar quotes from MATS Pt.1, should the clearance now be "descend to altitude 6000ft, to be FL70 or below 10 miles before XYZ" ?
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Damn, I got old quick !
[This message has been edited by Eric T Cartman (edited 14 September 2000).]