On the topic of ATC doing 'flightwatch jobs', can you illuminate what happens when a pilot calls up to ammend a SARTIME?
I understand you may not have time to make other flight plan amendments but I feel SARTIME ammendments are pretty important. It's not unusual (although hardly common) to call up after a flight and try to cancel the amended SARTIME and the CENSAR guy quotes back the original SARTIME that is expiring in a few minutes time. If the flight is delayed and it expires, is there a mechanism to halt the full on SAR search?