I don't know Dick from a bar of soap, and yes, I have been retired a while now, but it seems to me that a lot of you blokes tearing him a new one must have been born with ATPL's. Unless you are ex-military, GA is where YOU originally came from, and it's in trouble. The specific issue Dick raises is merely symptomatic of the mindset that wants me to put $15,000 dollars worth of ADS-B (out) in my $20,000 Jodel, in class 'G'. Dick is right, we are unnecessarily restrictive in too many ways, and out of step with most of the world in airspace management, cut the bloke some slack.