Skyfly150/Seething SATCO
You know as well as I do that on most days the radio next to the bar at Seething is not manned. It is therefore not uncommon for someone to pick up the handset and try to help out if an a/c calls. Hell - I may have even been of doing it myself - passing r/way in use and wind to the air-amby scooshing through the cct on its way to an RTA on the A143. So on days when the club is not A/G manned then any Tom, Dick or Harry (or Mike, Brian or John) could be sitting having a drink and trying to assist.
Whether that person is A/G trained or just a seasoned PPL is a moot point. MOST of the time the info is pertinent, useful and timely. There are occasions and these might emanate from an a/c in the visual circuit that the RT usage departs from CAP413 and becomes more verbose and conversational in nature. Never seems to happen on busy days but during slack periods.
It's quirky and I for one don't dislike it, I guess that you'd have a problem trying to enforce better RT discipline on most Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Bank Holidays.
Stik