mjbow2
You know full well that the statement in the Orange report about airspace at Orange being NAS compliant is false. Completely false!
Go and read the NAS document again. The interim design was to make Class E corridors into selected airports.The end state design of NAS was to have all radar covered airspace a minimum classification of Class E. On both counts this included Orange as the radar coverage is close to the ground.
The Chaser. It is a fact that if Orange had Class E this near collision in IMC would not have happened.
If you would like to turn the vast chunks of RADAR covered G into E, that would be a great idea for those days when its IMC in the backblocks, however I think if you remember this is about much busier terminal areas with high capacity RPT Jets and NO RADAR.
SQ