PAMCC - my experience of the knowledge of the limitations of RIS/RAS etc as understood by many military pilots is that they do not have a particularly good understanding of the rules of ATSORA.
Which have been around for years now.....
At a MEASC meeting many years ago, I commented that the average level of knowledge of the regulations pertaining to the sub-division of UK airspace displayed by graduates of the Tucano/Jetstream course was generally worse than that required even for PPL Air Law.
At a Bulldog standards session at Topcliffe, one of the prospective A2 candidates admitted he'd never heard of Class B airspace. Perhaps understandable, given his RW background - he'd probably never ever been anywhere near Class B airspace. But where did such a gap in his professional knolwedge stem from in the first place?
Under no circumstances can any mandatory instructions be issued under a RIS; in fact there isn't even any legal requirement for pilots flying under a RAS outside Controlled Airspace even to follow RAS instructions...
Claerly it is time to harmonise all civil/military terminology, with the only specific military difference being those associated with the role (e.g. visual run in and break).
And what, pray, is an 'Air Defence Advisory Service'? Is it RIS, RAS or something else?
Last edited by BEagle; 10th Feb 2006 at 10:04.