Originally Posted by
good egg
http://www.ead.eurocontrol.int/eadba...2016-03-31.pdf
Section 2.4 Class D Controlled Airspace
Excerpt as follows...
"Service: Air Traffic Control Service
VFR: ATC separation not provided.
Traffic information provided on IFR flights and other VFR flights; traffic avoidance advice on request."
That is the service provided by ATC in Class D for VFR flights. The fact that radar-derived information is available does not change the service provided. All it means is that ATC has radar information available.
Yes we know that. But it is wrong that ATC has the power to out VFR traffic on a collision course and yet has no responsibility for the aftermath. It is power without responsibility. If you are just going to quote the book and say that, because it is in the book it must be intrinsically right, there is not much point in continuing the debate.
Of course the book is much the same in the other countries I have flown in, like France. But there, they seem genuinely concerned with your safety and not just interested in following the book because that will keep their arses covered.