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4.66.2 Radar Services available to VFR flights.

2. Radar Assistance
  • Provided for VFR flights in classes C and D airspace.
  • In Class G airspace, help is available in an emergency
  • or with navigation
1. Purpose
  • Radar is used mainly to separate aircraft within
  • controlled airspace and to
  • assist aircraft in an emergency
3. Radar Vectoring
  • Heading instructions are given to a pilot by a radar controller
  • Different from radar assistance
  • Vectoring may be needed if you have inadvertently gone off course or
  • when ATC wants to maintain aircraft separation.