Don't you just love the old.........we are so short of codes..........4096 codes give us so few to assign that when it gets busy the system can not cope without having to asign local codes.
Rubbish (to a certain extent).
If the system was so short of codes then why do units like Franborough assign individual codes to VFR flights in class G airspace getting only a flight information service?
Why not give all such flights the same code (tells everyone who is working the aircraft) and give the codes thus made available back into the pot to be assigned to enroute allocations where there can be a shortage at peak times?
Regards,
DFC