Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
That would be with some kinda magic wand, I’m guessing.
Do you know what ‘deems’ means in legal parlance? Making true in law that which is untrue in fact.
What’s true in fact determines whether an accident happens or not.
I've done a lot of safety assessments over the years, and yes, noone just "deem" anything safe enough.
Safety management is about eliminating risks, or mitigating them to an acceptable level. the last means that we know there is a risk, but the cost of removing it is way beyond the actual gain from doing so, or it may not even be possible. We come up with the best assessments, which still contains the risks. That assessment is then forwarded to the management, they'll approve it... and the risk with it.
So yes, we all know that accidents may happen, though the risk is so low it is deemed almost non-existent, but since it's still there, noone on the ground level in the company can ever be the ones signing off the papers.
And on top of this comes the question of the users.... changing airspace structure and classification will always have pilots complain (VFR pilots feeling their "rights" to the airspace is taken away, or IFR pilots feeling their "rigth to decide themselves are taken away).