Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

"Jim Carter" wrote in message
news:004301c6c98f$b7d9d310$4001a8c0@omnibook6100.. .

The phraseology for loss of radar contact is "radar contact lost", not
"radar service terminated".


Steve,
Do they still advise "radar contact lost, radar service
terminated, cleared for the approach..."? I seem to remember getting
that when I used to go into Gunnison, Co. years ago.



I hope not.


I often go IFR into KBIH from the northwest. The airport is at 4,100
feet, MSL. Oakland Center typically loses radar contact when we leave
16,000, or so. It is a one-in/one-out airport.

Oakland Center has an RCO on the airport so we are sometimes told to
switch to advisory frequency, sometimes we are not.

It is a toss up whether the controller will say "radar service
terminated," or, "radar contact lost..radar service terminated."
Sometimes, the controller will simply say "radar service terminated."

Bottom line: "radar contact lost" or "radar service terminated" has
little, if any, practical difference in meaning to a pilot going into an
airport like Bishop.