Hi Bookworm;
Hmmmm, interesting concept... I have visited a couple of units in the UK both enroute and terminal and I didn't see much difference in the folks working the traffic from ours, the equipment was of course different as were the procedures, but I didn't see anything that would keep you from working everything as class E. <shrug> I didn't see anything as extra workload for an issue, nor would you have to beef up your staff to handle extra workload. Please let me know if I am wrong with this, I am always interested in the finer points <G>. I don't know where you work in the UK, but you if you do enroute stuff down south, you can find Andy Amor and he can tell you a bit about how we do it here as he has sat with me a while back. Would LOVE to have him back to see the new stuff <G>...
regards
Scott