As long as there is a CB to pull when I don't want to be watched.
This thread is NOT about big brother intrusion into our flying across the broad spectrum of aviation pursuits - or it shouldn't be - its about controlling the airspace where larger aircraft full of fare paying passengers travel. We have enough to worry about in terms of our freedoms to fly for fun without a MAC between an aircraft with 170 bums and one with 2 providing politicians
with an opportunity to strip any more away in the name of dredging for votes.
IFR (mostly but not exclusively) GA MUST be able to avail itself of 'the system' when it wants to/needs to BUT GA must fit in with the big end of the industry rather than the other way around.
What is so terrible about wedges of class C steps funnelling RPT aircraft into Class D towers and Class C above say 10000'?
Personally I find the attitude of people like DS, et al, to be amazingly arrogant. I also find it utterly STUNNING that such a small group can be so instrumental in causing SO MUCH grief over so many years.