You claimed IFR in cloud OCTA is indicative of our "
woefully inadequate airspace classification". How else do you fix it? There's only one way they'll never be OCTA.
I don't dislike Dick. I've discussed issues on the phone with him. What annoys me is his tenuous knowledge of how things used to be (considering he ran the show f or a while), his insistence that his changes can be implemented at no cost, and his belief that the US system can simply be transplanted here, and operate with existing ATC numbers. Their system needs 15000 ATC to run it. We have about a thousand, who were already handling more aircraft per head per day than the US ATC were (pre COVID that is).