Hangon before linching this guy.
He has shown a misunderstanding of the available radar services which is common to all weekend and GA flyers. Looking back at doing my PPL and so on I can not remember ever siting down with an instructor to talk about the various services a which were available and what was provided. This a fault in the way in which instructors are paid (by flying hour), there is no incentive for them to explain anything in the class room because they are not geting paid for it, and they dont get paid alot anyway.
Most of us on this forum are proffessionals who do this for a living and if we dont know then that is unforgivable, but for weekenders it is understandable, esp for those that have not used RT before or not gone far from their home base before.
After all how meny of us know the highway code, judging from the quality of driving on the roads these days not meny of us.
So this guys lapse is from a lack of education that is endemic in the GA community.
Remember, the open FIR isnt called "Bandit country" for nothing.
By the way, for those who dont do much GA flying, listen out on London info next time your in the cruise and got time to spare, and you will find out just what a problem it is, with one in five asking for a radar service!
