Howabout
Re your post #746 – you state
What Class E does, in the terminal environment, is allow a situation where separation responsibility could rest on the shoulders of a minimum hours VFR pilot.
Yes, you are correct. But this is only when VMC exists and there is the backup of “see and avoid”. What about Class G – that is where in the terminal environment, the separation responsibility – when in cloud – can rest on the shoulders of a minimum hours IFR pilot, ie. there is no separation standard for when in IMC and there is nothing to stop a low-time pilot – or even high time pilot - setting a risky separation “
standard”. That’s what happened at Orange a couple of years ago, where an airline aircraft was attempting an approach from the east when in cloud and a bank run pilot was attempting an approach from the west – both estimating the circuit area at about the same time.
Re. your post #766
I understood the Avalon study had been totally discredited. I understood it was classed as simple rubbish, and there’d even been a thread about this. For example, to say that the greatest chance of a collision was approximately 8 to 12 nautical miles from an aerodrome is the opposite to what the experts say. The greatest chance of collision is on the runway or close in to the aerodrome.