Duty of care
"May I ask all practitioners of LARS - Regardless of the new rules, if you have identified an aircraft which is in receipt of a FIS, and you see that it is going to get extremely close to another aircraft, would you tell it or not?
I know I would, the only reason I wouldn't is if I had a higher service aircraft that needed my attention due to a safety related issue.
Duty of care is badly worded in these things - any ATCO worth his or her salt would warn an aircraft if there was perceived risk, whatever the service. However if you have not identified the FIS traffic, or if you are too busy with higher priority traffic, say RAS, then you can only do so much.
Duty of Care should take everything into consideration"
It's called progress!
From now on I'm going to really fasten my seat belts and really keep my eyes out of the cockpit whilst I fly in the "even more" unknown FIR, (yeah ok, I know we should be doing this in the first place), knowing the poor radar controller has his/her hands tied. If he/she passes observed traffic then they might be hit over the head with the CAP774 by the LCE if interpreted as not being a "DEFINITE" risk (i.e.. when you're about to hit the b***** thing), or being hung by the b**** by some greedy legal type if you guys fail to pass traffic under 'duty of care'! If I was a radar controller, I know what I'd do!
Last edited by Billy Goat; 1st February 2009 at 15:55.