Affirmative. We are now at six thousand descending to two thousand and we’re VMC.
Would appear to be rather unusual adding "we're VMC". It is the only way they could be at that altitude without getting a descent clearance, and they would not have got a descent clearance as such before they were identified by radar'.
There was only, as standard practice for VMC descent, advisories given to the controller as to their altitude and intentions.
In a VMC descent, responsible for their own terrain and traffic separation as they had requested, all the controller had to provide was traffic information.
There was a danger operating at that altitude, as has been mentioned before on this thread. One of the reasons for the minimum descent altitude, 6,000ft, was that at that altitude there was no danger of bird strike with the numerous skua gulls, big birds capable of causing a lot of damage.
Wonder what would have been the outcome if one of the flights that did descend below 6,000ft did have such a birdstrike that caused substantial damage, which at 260kts plus it certainly would have, and the reason given was that "The controller invited me to do a low level run". Would not hold much water as areason..
The contrary had been stated earlier in this thread by someone else and I had just been repeating that
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Would not worry to much about that, would appear to happen quite often on this thread.
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