Roffa
Not biased at all against ATC. However I am against ATC making decisions which are outside their remit and which pilots do not realise they have the option to disregard. I am aware of many occasions when ATC have instructed pilots to manoeuvre when they should be passing traffic info and letting the pilot decide on the separation/manoeuvre to be applied. Controllers on the whole do a wonderful job but there are a growing number who seem to believe that posession of a little yellow book gives them authority which in reality they do not have. Unfortunately a proportion of users of Class G airspace are not aware of this and do not have the knowledge to challenge these instructions. As a result I believe that they are becoming less capable as pilots. Being Pilot in Command relies to a very large degree on assimilating information and making decisions. This skill is not being developed where the decision making process is devolved to other agencies when it should not be.