OZ, happy to agree with you.
The whole thing is a total beatup to push for E airspace in place of D after the boys in the tower have put the cat and milk bottles out.
As some may have guessed I was the bunny interviewed for the ABC news item. What didn't come across very well was that we, the other guy in the sim and I, are not opposed to having some form of controlled separation after hours but to slate the present process in G as archaic and totally dangerous was exaggeration and unnecessarily sensationalist.
What we were trying to show in the sim is that with all the bells and whistles that the modern generation of Bo/Bus contains safety wasn't an issue. We actually simulated the flight path of the Boeing in the holding pattern that night to show that the TCAS didn't come into play. It still wouldn't even when we tried flying the Boeing back towards the VOR at that altitude and with the Bus climbing through 3,100' on the missed approach. To make it produce a RA we actually had to get both aircraft to fly towards each other at 3,100' which would have created a real problem as 3,100' is the MSA where they were.