Dick Smith (respected airspace expert) said
But here's just one example. Under NAS, Bankstown would be class D and aircraft coming down the light aircraft lane would enter from that direction
Earlier, Dick Smith (respected airspace expert) said
I have always been told by the experts here that class E airspace requires more controllers than class G !
I am glad that Dick has highlighted the folly of moving to the pilot-job killing, dirt road, US system which will load enormous costs onto small businesses in Australia by forcing everyone to fly under higher levels of airspace classification.
The cost? Probably 500 million $ or so in controllers, millions $ waste of time and fuel per annum per IFR aircraft resulting in higher business costs and job losses, all so that we can spare private owners a million or so in fuel.
I would like to personally thank Mr. Smith for identifying the horrific waste and mis-allocation of resources that is the continuing move towards the job-killing US system. I can only hope the bureaucrats in Canberra are taking note of this new stance.