Originally Posted by
Barnaby the Bear
And nothing to do with yours, and others in the areas flight safety?!!!!!!!
Barnaby, when flying near to the Norwich ILS approach the ATC likes to know what your intentions are so that commercial operations are not interupted. This is fair enough but sometimes when using their FIS/RIS and your are NOT in danger of going near to their ILS you sometimes feel a bit of a hinderence. Last week I was under FIS and I requested a freq. change the short response was 'ok bye', I thought to myself 'oh, I'd better squawk 7000 then'. There was a total of two other aircraft on their freq. at the time, another VFR and a commercial on long approach.