State your recovery...
Yesterday whilst en-route, Brize Radar asked me to "state my recovery".
As I wasn't hearing them especially well I asked them to repeat, and satisfied myself that was what they were indeed saying. I had no idea what it meant.
I didn't think jokes about the AA or RAC would have gone down well, so I simply replied that I didn't understand the question.
The chap then just asked me if I was VFR or IFR. I replied VFR. He seemed satisfied.
Is this military terminology?