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Old 21st Nov 2007, 03:26
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Jabawocky
 
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Another victim perhaps????

What will be happening to VFR Flight following? Nothing I hear you say, its still available on request workload permitting.

Just had the pleasure of flying from one side of the country to the other and back, and while I flew VFR and the FTDK did a couple if IFR's to show me how real flying is done we had much time to listen to the radio and joke about asking Flightwatch for weather info etc.......then it hit me, what happens if I want to have Flight Following when in radar coverage.

In the past its always been available except once when I could hear a very stressed and obviously learning student at the console, so I accepted that as it was. But maybe that was as a result of F/W being ditchedon VHF.

So is there going to be a flow on effect. Anybody within ASA care to comment?

J
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