Notwithstanding Spitoons posting , of the two civil SSR equipped units I've worked (one LARS outside CAS, one inside CAS who provides a pseudo LARS when the military go home) the first has no approval to work SSR only, the second is approved inside CAS only.
Droopystop - this is indeed a small anomaly as it is accepted that the likelihood of non-transponding traffic in these areas is miniscule, coupled with the fact that all participants in the HMR route structure will wish to participate in the ATC advisory service (RAS). Overland the situation is different.
Some of us here however remember when there was a service being provided to traffic out to the East Shetland Basin using Secondary AND Primary
