However, Airservices/CASA changed the rules on FIS some years ago by moving away from the situation whereby ATC had the responsibility for providing a directed FIS to aircraft in flight to one whereby the pilot was responsible for obtaining inflight FIS updates through the "self-help" Flightwatch system.
Talk about abdicating responsibility!!!!!!!
Who in their right mind would knowingly not pass on critical information like this.
This situation just highlights how stupid that policy is? The crew had no reason to ask and therefore were never told.
I'd like to see how it might play out in court.
"You knew about this critical information but never bothered to pass it on?"
"They never asked My Lud"
