Ozm8, you're missing Dick Smiths reason for all these changes. He calls it affordable safety, but what it really means is,
-Less safe airspace
-The Big guys pay more to fund the extra controllers needed to run it.
-The little guys instead of paying the pittance they do now, pay nothing as they can wander thru E airspace for free, instead of paying to go through C airspace as they used to.
Bottom line, the top end of town pays more, resulting in higher air fares, and the weekend warriors go from paying a little to paying nothing.
Worst thing is while paying nothing, they still can call up out of the blue and rely on the fact that ATC is still there, even though they contribute nothing to maintaining the service. That is if they can find the correct ATC frequency.
The world seems completely out of whack in my opinion. Got a black man as worlds best golfer, a black woman as worlds best tennis player, Switzerland a land locked country wins the Americas Cup Yacht race, England makes the final of a major international sporting event, and we have a guy who couldn't tie his own shoelaces as the President of the USA.
