Sun Dec 05, 2021 3:12 am
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AndyR wrote:Had a basic service from Solent Radar recently, who did call me with anything that looked conflicting. (Including a helimed, who actually passed quite close).
Which then makes it a Traffic Service not a Basic Service
I don’t think so, it was a basic service, so they didn’t HAVE to call me with every piece of traffic that went past.
There was a marked difference from the traffic service I picked up on the same trip.
When I picked up that traffic service at Odiham (though they didn’t provide it, I forget who they handed me off to), I was getting called up with things like
G-PK traffic, left to right, 2 miles, 500 feet below.
which personally I’d not call conflicting and just illicits “looking” once a minute.
When I spoke to Solent, they only told me a few, like “traffic, helimed, right to left, similar height, 1/2 mile, now 1 mile to your right”
To which I was able to respond visual and passing behind.
I didn’t even see most of the traffic from the traffic service.
(Tbh, the traffic service was picked up by me calling Odiham, passing my message, actually being asked if I’d like a traffic service, thinking “not had one of those before, you’ve obviously got time, I asked for basic, and you’ve asked me if I’d like traffic, let’s try it”, saying “yes”, and immediately being handed off with glee.
I do wonder whether it was a ploy, and I do wonder if the person I was handed off to was thinking “right, I’ll call out everything within 5 miles, that’ll show him”, not knowing it wasn’t my idea)