Hi guys
Don't often venture in this forum, but a question has arisen that I can't find the answer to without some form of input from you esteemed chaps and chappesses.
What I would like is verbatim from the MATS (which I can't find a copy of in cyberspace) regarding clearance level restrictions and their continued (or not) validity when being handed over from one unit to another. For example, the arrival into Manchester from the south says to expect FL200 10nm before Monty. So we plan on this and are practically always given this restriction by London when we descend. This is below our ideal profile and thus not the most economical way to fly the jet.
Now I have been told that there is a reference in MATS which stipulates that on handover the next controller MUST restate this restriction if it is still to apply, if the controller does not we are free to regain our ideal profile (hence be above FL200 passing over Monty). So, is this true? Can you supply me with the reference and the relevant text? Is it as simple as that? If on handover we tell the controller of the restriction but he/she does not restate it, does it still apply? Any comments and thoughts (and an electronic copy of MATS!) would be very useful!
Cheers guys and keep up the great work.
PP