Perhaps the mods would like to split this discussion up to zone infringer's and flight planning ?
Great idea....and another one for people who only deal in personal abuse!
You said;
Regarding the comment about Bournemouth to BRI trainers, i am not sure why on earth you think DFC that we bin every flight plan.
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Flight plans with the correct addresses and reporting points end up at the correct units, we do not bin them.
So you are saying that for a training flight routing say EGHH dct BRI dct CDF dct BRI EGHH......with Bristol included as an addressee would result in Bristol retaining the flight plan and expecting the flight at some stage unless the flight plan is cancelled or changed. Bristol would never bin or ignore such a flight plan?.
If that is so then it is at odds with what Chilli etc have said.........I believe he used the term "logistically impossible" and said that with automatic procesing of FPL messages only inbounds and outbounds are presented.
Could it be that some units act on the flight plans which are correctly addressed to them and some do not?
Question for enroute people - if I file a plan prior to departure for the sole purpose of completing an airway crossing enroute. Is the flight plan put in the computer so that when I call up the FIR frequency, they can pull out the details or do I have to repeat the flight plan to the FIR controller?........Is this not a similar situation to the zone transit as I may choose to underfly the airway and not call for crossing clearance?
Regards,
DFC