At most airport units in the UK the radar has not been installed in order to provide radar services to any Tom, Dick and Harry outside CAS. It has been installed to provide Radar Control Services to traffic to and from the airport inside CAS.
A controller may be too busy to provide you with a radar service outside CAS. If you do get a radar service from a non-LARS unit outside CAS, consider yourself lucky.
By asking what service you want, we can decide if it is within our ability to provide it in addition to our other tasks.
Last edited by Glamdring; 5th Sep 2012 at 08:29.