C’mon Jack and Dick: You know it’s all ‘workload permitting’. Centre has no hesitation in telling the ‘pop up’ VFR to ‘stand by’ while other matters are sorted.
Yeah right.......(wry, sarcastic smile). Typical response from a lawyer! That is what happens. I'm not talking about the normal scenario. Defended anybody in a coroners court?
Pretty well immediate communication to pilots of aircraft you are separating.
What if one of the aircraft is an IFR SAAB on approach to Wagga and the other is a VFR listening to John Denver on the iPod? I don’t understand the problem with the VFR piping up and saying “That VFR at an unverified 8,500’ is probably me. I’m at 8,500’ on a QNH of 1017, 20 nms NW of Wagga.” My wild guess is that Centre will ask the VFR to squawk ident. My wild guess is that the IFR SAAB will be happy to know that the transponder info is accurate. The VFR might even go crazy and ask whether it would help if they tracked in a particular direction to avoid interfering with the SAAB’s approach.
Even wryer, more sarcastic smile............typical response from someone who's not doing it every day (Minus ROD's & Rec Leave). I can count on one hand the number of times that's happened in 24 years of doing it. Ridiculous uninformed comment, but hey, you're the expert
