MJBOW,
I'm with Chuckles on this
, however, to answer your question:
Peuce supports Class E above D in Broome if there was surveillance and everyone had a transponder. Do you also support the original NAS proposal to upgrade existing radar covered class G to Class E in the J curve? I look forward to your response.
That's nothing much to do with this topic, but the answer is ... it depends. Airspace classifications can't be decided on surveillance availability alone. Airspace Management is not about ideology, but about rational cost benefit analyses. Which volume are you talking about? What are the IFR movements like? Is a separation service warranted? Would the surveillance be put to better use with a Class F service, for example?
And not to put words in
HOWABOUT's mouth, but I think he, like others, may have been alluding to the fact that VFRs into (or transitting within 30nm of) Broome now ... are required to advise their intentions. If Class E was above Broome, that would not be the case. So ... IFRs would have less SA than they do now.