Capn Bloggs
Your deliberate campaign of misinformation serves only to illustrate to other pilots your resistance to change despite the prevailing tide of common sense.
The next generation of GA and young regional airline pilots
will be flying in NAS airspace in the future. Some of them will give credence to your comments merely because you fly a 717 jet and develop the same blind resistance that you have.
Capn Bloggs says
Think of the poor jet crew dodging a VFR on the CTAF AND being directed around by ATC on the Centre frequency
This has been explained to you before, yet you deliberately continue to mislead the readers.
You will never be in the situation as you describe. ATC will not clear you for an approach (visual or instrument) until any conflicting IFR traffic has been dealt with. You will not be given approval from ATC to change off the centre frequency until you are clear of any other IFR traffic. Do you understand this?
In VMC conditions class E is exactly the same as what we do now, in class G.
Myself and many other Australian pilots have flown for many years using Class E in the United States and understand how safe and efficient it is. You clearly have not and are not speaking from a position of understanding or experience.
Capn Bloggs you say
Yep, here comes DICK. "CANCEL IFR". So what did that achieve??
I cannot accept that you made it to a 717 with such a poor level of comprehension so can only conclude that you are deliberately trying to muddy the waters for the next generation of airline pilots who are yet to make up the mind about NAS.
What did class E achieve? How many times does this have to be explained to you? Improved safety in IMC conditions. The
Orange near miss in IMC would not have occurred. The Qantas GPWS incident in IMC at
Canberra would not have occurred. The Benalla and Mount Hotham accidents would not have occurred.
Any reasonable thinking pilot would want the protection of Class E during IMC conditions Capn Bloggs. A class of airspace that also has the flexibility of Class G if VMC conditions exist.