With respect, tell me something I don't know, but you would have to agree that, as far as possible, the aim is a CDA to minimise noise. And most times it works damned well. The tenor of pilot respect for the efforts of UK NATS is a polar opposite of much pilot opinion on ATC in this country. Airservices isn't all too often referred to Airnoservices for nothing
Management is so focussed on the process that they've long lost sight of core business. And who do you think initiated the state of perpetual restructuring we now find ourselves in?
If the UK system is so wonderful & all without vast swathes of E airspace why aren't we aiming for that?
