Agreed Triadic
As I've said a few times on other threads, after flying around a good chunk of the world on a day to day basis I think we already have world's best practice. All we need is a little fine tuning along the lines of Maaate's suggestion (excellent BTW) to have as good a system as we can ever want.
Why do !!!!!!!! and his mates think that copying parts of another system (cherry picking) is going to save more money than our system now?
I don't think it can for starters let alone factoring in safety concerns that we all have based on real experience.
When the first C182 gets cleaned up by a Dash 8/B737 etc in E where will !!!!!!!! and the ARG be?
Chuck