Re: Treatment of IFR flight plans (UK, outside Class A)
I've been out of FPL addressing for over 10 yrs but I suggest Austrocontrol is doing things correctly. ALL IFR FPLs should be sent only to the IFPS addresses - Haren and Bretigny (within the IFPS boundaries); it's just in the UK for flights outside of CAS, for expediency, they have, I suspect, become treated as VFR FPLs and sent to all appropriate addresses. Austrocontrol sending a VFR FPL to the departure ARO is fair do's I reckon. They are not going to know all the addresses for VFR UK FPLs.