Hello again Chaps!
A little thread creep here. It was all going really well with some very constructive points and then GND lowers the tone
To answer some of the points. A lot of the aircraft operating outside CAS can only do so when they are in reciept of RAS - it is the usually the airline's requirement rather than the controllers.
There seems to be a feeling that the civil airlines should not be in class G - they have the same rights as everyone else. but if you are flying around the FIR and you see an airliner it does not give you a right to fly closer to it than any other type of aircraft operating in the same piece of airspace. Remember almost any military aircraft will have greater manouverability and power available than the civil aircraft.
All airline SOPs require their pilots to comply with TCAS resolutions. If the pilot recieves a TCAS RA they are required to file a report. There is no option. The systems on the aircraft record the event.
A large number of those aircraft are crewed by exmilitary pilots, they have not had brain transplants, they just know that the limitations on their airframes do not give them the ability to act as fast jets, so they are understandably very nervous when they are told about fast jets making high energy manouveres close to them.
Anyway back to the thread on infringements in the control areas/zones, iccarus does have a point. Currently we have over 500 infrignments of CAS, the vast majority by GA. The zones have been in place at ABZ for decades, you are all professionals, we would all like to think that you would not be deliberately infringing this CAS