Mr Munro, your perspective on this incident smacks of a basic lack of understanding of PROFESSIONAL airline/ flying operations. The airspace reforms downgrade the safety of operations and compromise the inocents that sit behind us and pay good money to arive alive at their destinations.
Your airspace will cost lives and you know it. See and avoid pricipals do not even go close to working when travelling at up to 7 or 8 miles a minute. By the time you see them you have hit them. As for the no talking on the RT. That just shows that the people who have invented and backed this system are rank amatuers.
I would sugest you take a ride in my jump seat and spot lighties for me because I cant see them most of the time. A jump seat is a third seat in the flight deck in case you are not familiar with the term.