Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
From the REPCON:For some reason the vision of a galapagos tortoise sprang to mind while I was reading that comment.
One wonders how the reporter would cope with "low performance VFR aircraft (usually piloted by less experienced crew)" while the reporter is flying "high performance RPT" aircraft in and out of aerodromes in G.
This is not about G airspace ops.
Here we are talking about what is currently C airspace above D tower/app airspace in eastern seaboard regional ports being downgraded to E above D. In the first part of the modernisation, the airspace has already been taken from TWR/APP above A045 and transferred to En-route Centre ATCs but is still C. TWR/APP prior to this change had it up to A085. The next part of the modernisation proposal is to downgrade the C to E.
Whether yr slow or fast, RPT or VFR, experienced or not, doesn’t change some of the issues being highlighted here.