A phase would only be declared if you reported 'lost' needing assitance; however if you called at approx 40 ne YSWG requiring a vector for YGLB for example; just call and we'd give you a vector; nothing even written down.
As for things going against a licence, I wouldn't have thought so; who'd care. If you were lost and then went in as a result, because you didn't ask for help then there would definitely be some paper trail somewhere.
Most ATCs actually still believe that we should provide a service; so all would help you; some may put in an event report, but most wouldn't; then what happens; that's up to CASA and or ATSB. ATCs don't care, we're not the air police, even if some think we are.
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