Single Spey
Thanks for your obviously "well thought out" comments. You must have stayed up well past your ASBO curfew thinking them up. You can't have seen the airspace between NEW and ADN on a radar tube or you would have re considered your comments. Js41 240 kts versus Eurofighter/F3/GR4 500-600kts you would be avoiding traffic 20-30 miles away to get 5nm. Thats if the mil a/c don't decide to play chicken and follow your a/c. Forget co-ordination with the Air defenders, that ain't happening. The point is that class A airspace exists to provide airlines the protection from non participating conflicting traffic. P18 for better or worse is not H24. P600 is. A staggered rotation and not a mass arrival /departure would make life easier. Eastern are the only airline operating Jetstreams/SB20's from the South where the problems are.
No one is saying they don't want to be a controller. We are saying that we don't want to be on the end of a mid-air because the a/c cant' get out of the way in time after being told to avoid. I wanted to be a grass cutter anyway but the queue was too long!!