Hi CWO Geoff, off course we should have a more user friendly system. That's what Dick wants surely?
Yes I am ex RAAF ex airlines ex GA ex all sorts of stuff. I have also been known to ask the Willy controller why he thinks we bought him a radar set after being refused a clearance. I have been cleared VFR through very busy USAF controlled areas. The concept of "see and avoid" causes horror in this aviation backwater.
The Navy owns a great slab of NSW airspace and doesn't own any aircraft worth talking about. It's all insane by international standards
Having seen Ton San Nhut in the sixties I can tell you that Willy airspace is not crowded.