Roy Smith wrote:



Just out of curiosity, can you make a PSTN (Public Switched Telephone
Network) call from your radar station? Are the calls recorded?

We have access to outside lines from the ETVS, which is the panel in
front of the controller that controls all his communications. It is a
touch screen panel. For example when I want to call the FBO on the
field I simply hit the preprogrammed button labeled "Eddy" and the phone
dials Edwards Jet Center on the field. All the other important numbers
are thusly programmed. These lines are all recorded. We also have a
regular telephone that any office would have with access to the same
phone lines, just not recorded.



I've heard that you're not allowed to accept IFR cancellations which are
relayed via other aircraft. Is this correct?

No.


If so, how can you do so
based on a phone call with some desk jockey at an FBO?

Any call saying an aircraft has landed is good enough, recorded or not.



On a marginally related topic, my club had a talk recently about
in-flight medical emergencies. Let's say you were working me and I
said, "I've got a medical emergency, landing Podunk Municipal, get an
ambulance to meet me there" and then disappeared from the frequency.
What would you do?

Get an ambulance over there.


Do you have the resources/authority to get a medical
team dispatched to Podunk?

Yep, happens frequently. We also call in a lot of forest and grass
fires in the summer and early fall. I almost had to go to court because
I saw a fight in the parking lot at the airport and they were trying to
charge the wrong guy with assault.