Originally Posted by bookworm
Not sure I agree with that. I've always felt that it was a pity that RAS is restricted to IFR.
If you'd like to get an ATC licence with an APS rating, then try and give a RAS to everyone
with the separation that you have to try and achieve under a RAS, during a typical summers weekend, I suggest that opinion would last all of a Microsecond. It's not physically possible.
If you are VFR then it's your responsibility to avoid other aircraft, not mine to tell you how to conduct your flight. Harsh, but true. Learn that fact and move on
Originally Posted by bookworm
I've said it before here, the most valuable piece of traffic information a controller can give is one that is not currently passed under a RIS: which way do I turn to increase separation?
If you can't work that out from the information you're being given then the service being given doesn't have enough data. I've never had a problem deciding - it's called having the mental picture.
You'll be wanting the aircraft flown for you next!