Question for all of you with far more hours than me...
Surely a bit of common sense airmanship is required here? Having re-read 2.2 of the AIP:
if you were routing North of Reading and just clipping Benson MATZ, if you follow the letter of the AIP you would make calls to Benson for a MATZ penetration (potentially blind calls at the week-end) - but would it not be better to be getting a service from F'Boro Radar and listening for other traffic on that frequency? Obviously if going near the ATZ itself that would be a different matter or spending significant time within the MATZ (and if Class D airspace zone that is obviously very different matter). But do you not want to be listening on the frequency on which the most traffic relevant to your actual route would be talking?
Last edited by mjc123; 7th Aug 2009 at 12:20.
Reason: typos