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Old 13th February 2010 | 22:56
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mad_jock
 
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It depends on who your talking to no doudt Fisbangwallop will arrive to give you the real deal.

Scottish info is normally a none radar information service.

Sometimes they band box it it onto the upper frequency's which means you get an area controller on the other end instead of our ever friendly AFISO's which do the work normally.

The area controller has a radar in front of them instead of a pen and bit of paper and a biscuit. If the Area controller is a nice chap or chapess they will give you the full monty, if the freq isn't bandboxed you have the pen and paper information service.

Your lucky you should try flying at f me its early in the morning some poor sod is doing the whole of the west coast of scotland including the over the pond flights. Never tried to use scottish info at that time but I suspect the usual voices will be still tucked up in bed.

In fact can we rename the services in the Scottish FIR to "Bugger all,next to bugger all and the full monty" any suggestion what we can change procedural to?.

With these name changes there might be a hope in hell of none Brits actually understanding what service they are getting.
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