We are being sold a pup.
I have just read the NAS implementation programme. Can anyone please explain to me where the cost savings, the improved efficiencies, the enhanced safety, occur with it's introduction. I can only relate to the how the changes can effect the area I'm familiar with, and I can't get any comfort from what I see.
Have a look at the NAS implementation, relate it to how you operate and how NAS will impact on your operations, both from the pilots side and the controllers side.
How can the possibility of parachutists descending unannounced through E airspace where IFR aircraft are blissfully operating to specific clearances, be considered SAFE? Just one scenario I can think of. Gliders? - not much cross-section there when they're heading straight towards you, silent as simitars and legally not talking to anyone. Over emotive - perhaps, but it's a sobering prospect. There has to be some hidden logic to it all.
E-mail me or put it in the forum - I need to be educated.
CG