WBS- let's see if our ideas are similar.
1) Change all airspace from class 'G' to class 'E' (with the exception of TMA's and CTR's) up to FL100. (Come on - with modern aircraft performance do we really need a chunk of Class 'A' stretching from Daventry to just north of Shawbury with a base level of FL45?).
2) Apply the definition of 'FIS' more stringently, rather than it being used for traffic information also.
3) RIS (for want of a better name) for IFR flights only in class 'E', with avoiding action available on request, not as a service in it's own right. FIS available for VFR.
4) Have one, consolidated, provider of radar services throughout the country, rather than the fragmented set up so far. (In short the radars come out of the airfields - both civil and military - this is not a huge country after all). Radar cover for the entire country with sectorisation size both laterally and vertically based on traffic density.
(I realise the latter will bring up the question of qualifications and ratings. As the lower sectors will involve providing an approach service to airfields in the sector then requirements for that will be an approach surveillance rating. Sectors above that would be area).
Make sense?
Last edited by Chilli Monster; 9th Feb 2004 at 06:16.