LHR
Normally I enjoy your posts but you seem to have found a new religion and lost logic if you ask the question of Max in your first line.
Every IFR aircraft descends below LSALT when manoeuvering to approach. At what point do you switch off the ATC alarm process?
This argument has been well canvassed elsewhere. To provide the service simply requires resource - you don't monitor traffic and talk to them without it. Further, at what point do you remove responsibility from the PIC to ATC for terrain avoidance? Do we all become complacent and expect Big Brother to keep us separate from the ground?
I have not seen a single game of solitaire in my visits to TAAATS
This is another Dick philosophy, be it good or bad, and will be achieved by negotiation with Airservices not prayer meetings on here. What paper has Dick put forward to Airservices on this matter specifically, together with a safety case? I'll probably support a well considered argument.