James,
You went Niles as a show of force yesterday - probably needed a diversion from the way your arguments are going down the gurgler.
As a spectator of that event I would have to disagree with your statement, it would appear Niles was bullsh1tting and Dick called his bluff, and won. Nothing evil in that.
Dick,
I do not agree that "class E without surveillance has been proven to be dangerous and irresponsible"
From my experience Dick, I would not agree with that statement, Class E without surveillance and below flight levels is in my opinion a very false environment.
I believe the present configuration of E in the west works ( above FL180 ) well as it is in the Flight Levels, pretty much everything up there is IFR, anyone with an aircraft capable of these operations is IR.
Having flown around SY in the short grey days of NAS, it was very very scarey, didn't the RAAF voluntarily ground all their aircraft ?.
Before anyone launchess another tirade against me, re-read post #142.