put in place expensive measures to mitigate the insignificant risk and then look on while safety suffered in other areas because we had wasted resources.
So you're out to advocate that the UK system is better than other countries with Class E?
Then the UK contradicts itself by having a very poor low level Class A system of airways anyway. What's the point of boxing traffic together and then working to keep them apart?
Now let's look at the charges:
1. The UK has no Class E and sits in the top two for route charges in Europe, if not the world.
2. France and Germany has Class E and is lower down that list.
3. The US has Class E moves much more air traffic at less cost than all countries in western Europe.
What would you have to say about this?
And it's hard to break those old orthodoxies, isn't it?
You do have a point about focusing controlling resources where there are know areas of high traffic density instead of meteorological conditions.
But I'd imagine SERA to tell all units to provide consistent level of services across Europe - in other words telling providers, regulators, airports, and airliners to accept withdrawal of Class E and continue flying IFR in Class G, it would be hard to sell this point.
Maybe much easier the other way around - introducing Class E or similar in the UK instead.