Things change.
Look at how Liverpool (17 LCC Boeings) and Bristol (9 LCC Airbuses) for example have grown busier and busier over the last decade. See how the likes of Finningley and Coventry are headed the same way.
Airspace should not and will not remain static in the face of changed realities. If air travel was in decline it would be possible to remove CAS. The opposite is the reality.
The area where there is real scope to open up airspace is the military. The Navy does not use and cannot justify the huge danger areas they maintain in the South of England. The RAF with its dwindling fleet still demands most of the East coast of England to itself. Accomodating the military in the airspace over England puts them in some of the most highly congested airspace in the world. With the whole RAF standing at a little over 40,000 staff they could all be accomodated in Inverness and be out of everyones way and spend a lot less time transiting to ranges and low flying areas.
GA pilots should be in favour of having more controlled airspace where it is justified by the commercial realities of an airport getting busier. They should take this view in their own self interest. Because if, one day heaven forbid, a PA28/C172/R22 collides with a 737/319/146 and 120 are killed in the air and 25 on the ground then the media and the great unwashed public will go for rich men playing in the their noisy polluting 'planes with a vengance.
GA would be faced with mandatory Mode S TCAS and that includes you glider boy and microlight man. But then the insurance companies would have grounded most of the GA fleet the day after the air disaster anyway.
Everyone is in this together. Resist the temptation to polarise GA from Commercial pilots.
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