now it's clear
Good summery wyvern
You do apply class E rules in class E airspace but as the ATC manual states and the Americans realize, there IS room for controllers to move and use discretionary commonsense....Freehand it.
There is more than one controller I come across on a regular basis who are sooo laid back yet professional it’s a pleasure to talk to them. A bit of a contrast to some others.
We Aussies have inherited some of the ‘stiff upper lip’ British culture which says, why make anything easy when you can just as easily make it hard or bloody near impossible. We will need another 300 years or so to start saying as the Americans do, “Why can’t I do that, I’ll give it a try” instead of “No you can’t do that, lets make a law against it”
!!!!su-Tonka
Why don’t you start doing all the things you say that you can’t do? (that all the American controllers DO do.) What we are talking about here is assistance, and no, no one will have your nuts if a pilot does something unexpected or stupid. (Same as the situation now in class C or D if someone doesn’t follow instructions.) The standard of negligence is still ‘what would a normal reasonable person do in the same circumstances.’
I don’t agree with all the aspects of the NAS and I’ve had my say, but these decisions are not my responsibility or yours. If !!!! happens they were warned and we need to get on with our lives.
The ferocity of some writers on this thread is sad to see and will hurt them more than the intended recipients.
Go watch a Faulty Towers video!!!
BP