Maybe Dick is talking about the US? No wait they did not have ATC before WW2 either, maybe Europe? Nope not there either.
Oh well must be as inciteful as all the other posts regarding ATC and the delays we embugger the VFR industry with made by Dick.
Why is it that someone who is obviously such a good business man has so little understanding of what the majority of controllers do? Cause it would not fit with the greater scheme. ATC control aircraft to stop them hitting each other, except this is not a good enough reason to deny the 172 a clearance into the same bit of airspace as the 738 or for that matter the E190 as far as Mr Smith is concerned.
If the system of priorities that applied in the US (1st come 1st served) applied in Oz then the lighty would have the same rights as the IFR RPT. I believe this is one of the things that Dick misses everytime in his shots at the airspace and the controllers. we can not give priority to a VFR over the IFR RPT, change that rule and the whole game changes. But - Dick you go sell it to the bigger part of industry who earn a lot of dollars for Australia.
QF 6 follow the Cherokee downwind, expect late landing clearance..........