Folks,
I think it is time to reverse the time machine and go back and take a closer look at what actually transpired between AF447 and ATLANTICO at INTOL.
Refer to the
AF447 thread where many moons ago I laid out the obvious discrepancy in the waypoint timings provided to ATLANTICO for SALPU and ORARO. ATLANTICO had good reason to query the aircraft and at the same time request the ETO TASIL at the FIR boundary.
Now why were the timings so obviously incorrect???
When DAKAR requested a FP for AF447, the Virtual FP information provided to DAKAR by ATLANTICO was an estimate for TASIL that they (ATLANTICO) had created. Were ATLANTICO too busy to pursue AF447 using SELCAL and check with DAKAR that the a/c had made contact with them at the FIR boundary? I doubt it. They just assumed that DAKAR OCEANIC would get comms with the a/c at some stage of its transit through the DAKAR FIR.