My heart bleeds for the poor chap who finds he has to look out the window, going in and out of KLAX, I do hope he looks out the window in Australian airspace, in accordance with Australian regulated requirements.
I do look out the window going into LAX, and every other airport I operate too. My point is that my separation should not be
predacated on it. My Mark I eyeball should be used as a backup to safety (like TCAS), it should not be the PRIMARY method of separation for an RPT operation (like is often the case in LAX when you have unidentified light aircraft operating at the same level as you.) I too can name many breakdowns in Australia... maybe thats the key that we haven't got it right yet.
My point is simply that the US airspace isn't perfect, and I'm a bit disapointed that so many blindly say our airspace should just resemble the US airspace which has more than its fair share of floors. Instead it should be designed to be the safest in the world.