Originally Posted by nigegilb
Forgive me for intruding here but I used to be an ATCO at SCATCC (Mil). Cloudbreak was a term used quite frequently. Few cobwebs here but I recall it just meant a pilot wanted a radar service as low as we could take him, til he got VMC below. Remember, the radar heads at an ATC Centre are dotted around the country. I cannot remember if we used a sector safe altitude like you might see on a radar vector chart or the emergency safe altitude. Seem to remember that USAF often used the term.
Thanks for the info, i find it interesting you use the word "term", as in it was a defined procedure. The only place I could find it written down was in a USAF document, and then it was not defined.
Any more out there???