P-Dubby
I've been out of the system a while but my interest in this goes back a long way.
I started the thread "NAS apathy" years ago which elicited a lot of
responses, and showed a lot of ignorance and confusion about
airspace and who/how it is administered.
I may be wrong but OAR implement changes after consultation
with all stakeholders. They may, however, have political pressure to
follow certain policies. If the stakeholders voice, and AsA and the
airlines must be the heavies here, is strong enough, then a better outcome should have occurred with AV.
I see you're from BN. You must have a beef with how some airspace is
set up. Haven't you thought the "regular" users should get a better
break, and how your life would be easier if things were different?
The AV airspace should cater for full separation for RPT and IFR,
and separation from all other traffic. After all they pay AsA dearly
for a separation service, whereas VFR don't pay a cent.
There is a considerable amount of this traffic going to and transitting
AV airspace. There also are considerable periods when VFR in C
can come and go with clearances and traffic. Very simple.
I sat in a busy radar GA tower (not GAAP) for years, and our daily routine
was to remind pilots of their transponder faults, their navigation errors
and their poor coms. When AsA insisted on full incident reporting on transponders for purely statistical
purposes, everyone lost heart.
We sent these pilots to MB and PC and towards AV knowing full well
there was trouble coming their way.
The AV airspace set up exposes controllers to considerable
risk for a life time in court. It equally exposes the flying public
to a risk they are unaware of, all because of a small band
of people who think they have a free right to be there.