PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - FISOs - what are they for?
View Single Post
Old 13th Apr 2003, 15:48
  #7 (permalink)  
Thrifty van Rental
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Cheese-eating Surrender Monkey land
Posts: 80
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
I think I see a man with a bee in his bonnet (I hope that's right. English slang always worries me)

I am not a big fanatic for using the radio when enjoying myself in the Yak, but even I can see that there are occasions when a trained individual on the ground can help everybody concerned.

In fact, your FISO system is much better than ours. In France, our A/G people are basically unlicensed and the quality is far more variable than your FISOs.

When I fly over to England, my simple response when a FISO oversteps their authority is to say:

"F-xxxx. Please confirm that your callsign is ABC Information and that you are offering a Flight Information Service only." That has never failed.

TvR
Thrifty van Rental is offline