rotorblades
Under the FAA code of federal regs:
Quote:
No person may operate an aircraft in controlled airspace under IFR unless that person has—
(a) Filed an IFR flight plan; and
(b) Received an appropriate ATC clearance.
This isolated and selective statement highlights exactly why you Class E deniers do not understand the system on offer. You refuse to consider all the information in concert.
IFR in the United States
do not fly in class E without a clearance.
All airline served airports have a minimum of Class E starting at 700ft AGL
rotorblades and if
no IFR clearance has been given, then by definition the flight is VFR while climbing out. Do you understand this?
If an IFR clearance is not immediately available, an aircraft can depart VFR and climb up to the base of Class A, before picking up their IFR clearance. All in Class E!
Read my
post here.
We should copy the United States here and issue an airways clearance to IFR, ON THE GROUND prior to departure. Class E should go to the ground when the tower closes. Problem solved.
If you understood the NAS proposal you would know we are going to have Class E down to 700ft AGL for terminal areas, 1200ft for corridors (Airways) and down to ground level for approaches and to the ground when Class D towers closed.
From your other posts you clearly did not understand how we could do this from a place like Ballina. There is a solution
rotorblades, we should copy a country that already does it with amazing success. They sometimes issue clearance 'void times' if not airborne in a non radar environment by a certain time. Its simple and it works.
You're still young
rotorblades, I'm sure in time you may get to work in other countries and you will have the opportunity to learn better ways of doing things.
You say
dont try and convince pilots to do something in Australia which isnt within the Australian rules.
Remarkable statement to make. We can and do change our rules all the time. Yourself and ARFOR seem to think not.
The airline I work for does not allow us to fly VFR, as doesn't
Jet A knight's. But we can make exemptions and copy the US by allowing RPT to depart VFR in some circumstances as long as they 'pick up IFR' by 50nm from the departure airport. See FAA
Ops Spec C 077.
Not everything is in the FAR AIMS!