Resources are finite and for non-LARS approach units providing services outside CAS to traffic that is not inbound or outbound is way down there at the bottom of the pecking order. Unfortunate but that's the way it is.
Honestly, I really have got to grip with this usual mantra.
If you read all my posts the thrust of my argument was not this.
Let me summarise for you.
In my opinion CAS (particularly in the south) has, as it has increased, constricted OCAS traffic in to ever smaller corridors in terms of both lateral and vertical seperation. Transit reusals add to the problem.
In at least some cases when CAS is enlarged assurances have been given that an appropriate service WILL be given to OCAS traffic.
and finally NATS could provide the data to enable others to provide the service they dont at marginal costs to them, but it would seem are unwilling to do so.
Yes, and we know, thats the way it is .. .. ..
but sometimes the way it is, is not a good thing, and when you have just missed another aircraft by 50 feet it brings it home to you thats not the answer to a few dead people if it could be avoided.
... .. .. time for things to change, me thinks.