JackoSchitt, you state:
As for saving money on turning off the equipment, I'm told that equipment is going to be handed over to ATC to enable them to do the function in some areas.
If this is so, it is good and mitigates the problem slightly. However, if this equipment is going to be used by ATC, surely the AIP Supplement would have mentioned that the Flightwatch frequencies were now being changed to ATC frequencies. The AIP Supp makes not mention of this at all. It looks to me as if Airservices plans to make a clean sweep of removing all of those frequencies and the transmitters so they cannot be used in any way.
Does anyone have any further information on this?