sas wrote:
However. Other airports seem to manage it with no loss of seperation. LAX for example.
I stand to be corrected but I think you'll probably find the LAX VFR corridor is vertically separated from LAX departures/missed approaches, so no issues there. If it's not then it would surprise me greatly.
It is a British disease that tries to seperate GA and CAT.
It's not a case of applying IFR separation standards to VFR/IFR traffic mixes, rather just making sure that they don't bump into each other.
The rules say only traffic info is necessary in Class D here, no atco that values their licence in the UK is probably just going to leave it at that. Irrespective of what the rules say it wouldn't be very defensible in court. "Yes I could see the returns about to merge, but hey, I've done my bit".
I'm sure that would be seen as a rather pathetic defense
