Snarek & Icarus2001,
Why do we have the flight notification form? It's called "International harmonisation"! Heard that term before?
We once had a form that allowed you to lodge details and it was actually useful during flight. The same ill informed amateur that has given us NAS is the same one who pushed us down the path of "that's the way they do it at ICAO" cr@p when it comes to everything we do.
Start asking yourselves a few pertinent questions in regards to the following:
Who pushed the "user pays" argument?
Who is behind the blind following of ICAO airspace regardless of it's suitability?
Who was at the helm when AOPA began it's slipperry slope to irrelevance?
Who was behind the numerous failed airspace reforms that have cost the industry (you, user payer, you) millions of dollars?
But you just keep comin" back for more!
Tell me where are the savings in NAS? The question keeps getting asked and the silence is deafening.