Originally Posted by Sunfish
blogs, how much of your opposition is pure snobbery over having to have constructive dialogue with PPL Bugsmashers?
Sunny, I'm disappointed. I use the term bugsmashers as a term of endearment. Don't start going soft on me now!
I've said to you before, and I'll say it again. I go out of my way to help the bugsmashers of the world do what they want. I'll more often than not keep out of their way, and I am all for constructive dialogue as that is how we get the best outcome ("mutual inconvenience", as Magilla used to say). After all, that is exactly what ATC is, is it not? My gripe is not that bugsmashers exist, it is with the bureaucratic ideologues that think that the two separate systems (VFR/CTAF and IFR/CTA) can exist together with no problems and all will be dandy. If it's VMC, just look out the window. It doesn't work like that.