"Stan Prevost" wrote in message
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That's how I normally think of terminal controllers. But I thought you
had excluded the approach control facilities when you used the context of
fields using center approach control.


I didn't use that context. This has nothing to do with flights that
originate in center airspace. The problem is with flights that originate in
approach airspace where center gets an auto-acquire on the aircraft. When
center gets the auto-acquire approach is locked out of any further flight
data processing on that flight.



Do you call center controllers "terminal controllers" when they are
working approach control? That could be what I missed.


No.