Originally Posted by Sledled
Contrary to all the garbage talked, Class E is not dependent on having radar coverage, all it means is procedural control of IFR.
Garbage is right. All that would have done was have ATC dictating instructions to IFR, all the while with VFR swanning around in the middle, whilst all are on both the CTAF and Centre in marginal weather!
The only REASON E exists is to allow VFR unfettered access to IFR airspace (John and Martha told me so). In the situation that MJbow2 described, VFR should have "got lost" and then, with some commonsense coord, the IFRs would have sorted it out. Or is that not taught any more?
Make it controlled to the ground or get rid of E completely. This half-baked free-for-all is nonsense. It's 2015, not the John Wayne 70s and 80s.