Originally Posted by flower
Exeter have an application in for CAS and their operation has grown massively.
That is true, but they are not putting out their proposals for general discussion.
Worse their 'stepped airspace' is based on an aircraft with a poor rate of climb, which will probably not be in operation at the time the new airspace is instituted.
This means that in places there is a very narrow margin between the base of the CAS and the ground.
Again, this shows that GA is being sidelined in favour of commercial operators and the margins of safety for GA are reduced so that the relatively small numbers of commercial flights have a greater margin.