Originally Posted by LB
Take a deep breath and think about it, please.
Must be a school-teacher...
In what class of airspace may a VFR pilot operate an aircraft that is not fitted with a transponder?
Read your AIP, for goodness sake! This stuff is pretty basic, LB. If you still don't know and can't work out how to find out, I suggest you leave the board and stop wasting everybody's time.
If you lot (Dick and LB) are serious, just implement PURE ICAO airspace. Oh hang on, that would mean we'd have to put D towers everywhere. See, you can't have it both ways. Either you bastardise (I mean modify) the ICAO alphabet soup airspace (which by now it is painfully obvious that is a dog's breakfast)t to suit, or you use "as is". Make up your minds. If you're going to bastardise it, add transponder requirements to CTAFs.
whom I’m sure the bean counters in the airlines love
Just as Dick and you are loved by GA for trying to reduce costs.
Sunfish: another post from a sensible pilot who has a practical grasp of the issues.