This will not be transparent to the aircrew, particularly with the deconfliction service.
There will be no 'you are responsible for terrain...' from the ATC or FCs (unless they suggest a vector whilst under a basic service). I think that is good call as constantly telling a pilot to do his utmost not to clip the hills is, at best, patronising!
You'll be allowed to climb to right up to the DFL with traffic at FL250 (200 if TRAs are not active) regardless of whether you have call 'happy to continue' on that traffic. A good move IMHO, although I'll only be applying that although every effort SHOULD be made to coordinate.
Unfortunately, some idiot has removed the RAS merge rule, which was ideal for being able to negate VFR offshore helo traffic. Unfortunately for the Typhoon & F3 guys, they'll be getting avoiding action calls against pop up, slow, low traffic even if they are 20K above it. Madness.
Last edited by Pure Pursuit; 3rd Feb 2009 at 21:15.