Am I right in thinking that a pilot cleared through airspace at a thousand feet would assume that such a flight path at that level was safe? If it wasn’t, what is the point of having ATC if you are not RPT heavy iron?
This dovetails with the class E paper, ADSB, and airspace reform? What responsibility for the mangalore midair? What’s the point if AsA does not take any responsibility the ATSB always blames the pilot and CASA helpfully catalogues all the regulations the pilot broke?
What happens when the non rpt pilot population perhaps one day decides that the regulations are a joke, enforcement is a joke, AsA is a joke and the ATSB is a joke? If we do not have a consistent set of regulations that are grounded in good airmanship, enforced fairly, an ATC system and airspace design that is both efficient, safe and equitable and an ATSB that reports without fear or favor we are asking for trouble.