whowhenwhy
Between us we've proved my point. The rules on what each service provides are clear ostensibly, making the correct provision fairly obvious, as you say. However, they then become clouded by duty of care, making them open to interpretation by different controllers. My point is, if someone on a basic service bangs into another aircraft which is not on any service, and at the subsequent investigation it transpires you saw that aircraft on radar bud did not inform your basic service pilot about it, where will duty of care be? I know the rules are clear but , as i said, on the CAA cd rom it clearly states that duty of care will be decided in court.
' yes, m'lud, i saw it on my radar screen but my pilot was on a basic service'