Marco,
Yes, I had heard some years ago that it had been withdrawn and I appear have the same recent fax that you got.
Letsby,
WRT your profile, which Midlands is that? Are they all thick in your part of the world?
The point is, everyone that there are lots of different ideas on how it should be done. However, has anyone actually been successful in making air-to-air contact where two aircraft planned or happened to be on the same VHF frequency? I believe that we have a real flight safety problem here. We all plan to operate in the bits of airspace that no-one else often can or wishes to use but we consistently go like bees round a honey pot to certain jobs e.g. Tracker. Just when we are likely to be in the same place our attention gets drawn towards events on the ground...the sooner we get a common frequency the better. A mid-air would do our industry immense harm.