Josh Babcock wrote:
> Sounds like a good reason to fly VFR. I wonder if they have considered
> the safety implications of this. I know in the US you can request that
> ATC watch you while you are flying VFR, but I don't know if you need to
> give your tail number when you do. I would guess that you do.
We call this "Flight Information Service", FIS - whose use is
recommended but not mandantory. You call them by telling your "call
sign"/registration (alias "tail number"), they give you a transponder
"squawk", a four digit number, in order to identify your radar
response, and you have to listen on their frequency as long as you wish
to stay under their surveillance.
I'd be very surprised if this sort of service in the EU would be unique
in the world. Still I'm pretty sure that your position data that is
recorded at ATC is locked by privacy protection (at least in "Old
Europe" ;-)
Martin.
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