Originally Posted by
FantomZorbin
chevvron
Re. Lindholme. The 'data rates' of the T84/85 were slower than the T82 consequently the Level allocation for transit traffic in the overhead, 'procedural', was probably the best option.
It was actually my excellent mentor at Lindholme, (Les Coyle) who taught me the 'trick' of watching traffic in the Lindholme overhead on the remote radars; officially we still had to trot out the standard phrase 'losing radar contact as you pass through my overhead, I will advise when you are back on radar service'.
Les taught me other little tricks like allowing visual climbthroughs above FL245 when there was no other traffic to affect rather than vectoring the traffic 5nm apart.
Didn't happen to me but some airline pilots would get a bit stroppy when you said the above 'standard' phrase, demanding to know exactly where the radar was.