Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
LeP and Plaz, I read the VOR post I quoted at 228 as attributing the lack of E and the over-use of C in Australia mostly to the intransigence of Australian ATC and pilots rather than the meddling of amateurs.
The overenthusiastic amateurs are the ones tripping themselves up as they don't know how to negotiate. "My way or the highway" is the style seen time and again.
LeP: What if - heaven forbid - Australia introduced real G instead of ForG and reduced the volume of Class C without replacing it entirely with E? You know - set up airspace in accordance with principle rather than perception.
I'd still be separating traffic. What pray tell would you replace the "C" with? Most of what I deal with it is there for RPT jets to remain in CTA. And don't forget Dick wants to introduce "E" down to low level for instrument approaches and that won't come without the ATC bodies to staff the consoles.