Military Controlling
How shrill the debate gets when Dick ventures an opinion!
As a Hunter Valley resident I suffer military ATC intransigence regularly. Just last week I had to pick my way up the "inland corridor" in marginal weather near Gloucester because, in VMC closer to the airport, Willy had "an aircraft on approach". My mate Mick Hutchins still rests somewhere in the Barringtons because Willy was "too busy" to let him down the coastal route, and a Mooney likewise as I recall. The USAF has less dedicated airspace than the RAAF has. Why we quietly suffer this outrageous military airspace grab I do not know. The Navy has great areas of airpace yet no fixed wing aircraft! It is only because our VMC traffic pressures are so miniscule that such inefficient controlling survives.