there is no leadership shown in telling aircraft when it is sensible to cancel IFR so traffic does not have to be held in risky circumstances.
Are you serious?
That statement is so wrong on so many levels of intelligence...
To be clear..you still want Class D airspace and you want that visual class D tower to tell pilots when it is safe to cancel IFR....to facilitate traffic????
Why do you have this problem that the tower MUST only look after the three miles around the tower and nothing else? Does that mean you want a full approach service at class D as well?
Smith....how many times since the AOPA and the RAAF had their little chat have you been held at WLM?