But their CAA clearly lacks the leadership to allocate an ICAO airspace classification to the airspace- no doubt scared of being attacked by anonymous dopes on PPRUNE.
I know who the dopes are, and they are not the pommy CAA. The POMs just do what is necessary to get the job done, much like what we would do if commonsense prevailed. They're not paranoid about making some bureaucratic "rule" work in the real world. The yanks never had alphabet soup airspace until it was invented by some bureaucrat in ICAO, and then they made it fit. When did ICAO say that transponder veils around class B were required? When did ICAO say that transponders were required in Class E? The alphabet soup classifications are becoming more of a farce as time goes on.
Yes, the more I see and think about all this, it's obvious that this has nothing to do with safety or service. It's all about being Free in GE.
