Last week when flying into a regonal airport in very good VMC I was vectored all over the place to avoid a light aircraft
Out of interest, are you guys not able, or not allowed, to downgrade to a Flight Information Service, and just look out the window to avoid traffic like the rest of us?
I appreciate that the speeds and momentums involved are far higher.... but there are plenty of microlights, gliders and so on which do not show up on a radar display at all, so the requirement to look out the window and avoid visually still exists even when receiving a RAS in VMC. Therefore, surely there's an argument that if your momentum is such that you are not able to safely see and avoid visually, then you ought to slow down, regardless of what type of ATC service you are receiving?
So downgrading to FIS would save you the unnecessary vectors and keep your bosses happy, save us little guys from receiving illegal "instructions" from ATC to keep out of your way, make it less likely for light aircraft to avoid talking to ATC because of these illegal "instructions", and all, arguably, with no reduction in safety!
FFF
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