Yeoman
I believe that the real issue here is the difference filed by the UK authority, which clearly causes irritation to the CAT world and I can understand why this is the case, especially for commercial pilots who did not train in the UK and do not experience practice pans and training fixes in other air space.
Unfortunately (and the FDCOM is clear about this), there is no great probability of a discrete frequency being made available for GA pilots to practice fixes.
So we are uncomfortable bed fellows on the same frequency and this is a constraint for both heavy iron and bug smashers, since commercial pilots understandably do not like the distraction and we, in the GA community, feel under attack for using a facility that our national authority actively encourages us to use and which has a real utility to GA pilots and controllers.
Until a discrete frequency can be found, I guess that we will both have to do our best to co-exist.
Last edited by Final 3 Greens; 20th May 2006 at 09:10.