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There will be times when IFR ops will have their choices made for them by a controller. In IMC there will be no choice. IFR will get a separation service no matter how long it takes to provide it.
Without radar coverage, E corridors will be very restrictive at times.
Almost everyone puts up with ATC at the main centres of traffic, but at remote country locations, I'm not so sure pilots want that intervention. Especially when that intervention comes from a controller in ML or BN, who will only have a vague idea of the actual met conditions.
I don't really care how all this pans out. However, having been in the game for a while now, some changes are just changes that haven't improved anything.
We are still battling with readbacks after 3 years. It has only created more frequency congestion.
It's important that pilots/operators/controllers know exactly the day-to-day operational impact of NAS.
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