Gertie wrote:jollyrog wrote:Essex Radar are not on the map or the list.
Neither are some military and civilian airfields who actually seem to quite like you to talk to them; at least they're very helpful when you do. You need local knowledge as well as that chart ... or you call up people to see what the score is, as that "muppet" is reported to have done.
Why call a discrete CAS ATC frequency for LARS? Agencies such as EssexRadar, Heathrow Radar, Thames Radar etc have no LARS remit. It simply wastes the ANSP's time and aircrew time. (If, by score, you mean a football match or cricket score then that is a different matter…)
I agree that the LARS boundaries could be better defined rather than the ill-though-out, simplistic, 'one size doesn't fit all' radii (for instance Farnborough are not keen on working LARS traffic west of the A34 or north of the M4)