Yes vintage ATCO, fair point. I admit to not being sure exactly what simultaneous operations meant - as Barney implies, we're all at different points on the learning curve. That was one of the questions I would have asked if I could have contacted them by phone beforehand. We have paralell grass and tarmac at my home field but they are much stricter about switching between the two - guess that's what confused me. Just re-read the AIP and it says "treat both as one runway" - makes sense now
I assure you I do understand the differences between an A/G, FIS and full ATC service, though. Just a case of me using the wrong acronym, honest
Respect to you ATC'ers for coping with us lowtimers. I wasn't trying to rubbish the FISO, just pointing out that when it gets busy, communications can be less than ideal.