we could just blanket the country in controlled airspace and prohibit the military from flying anywhere.
It seems a bit odd to me that the RAF is allmost the only airforce in the world unable to fly in CAS...... You can do everything you do in G in class C/D, just just need clearence first.
It's works here, and the fighter jocks seem quite content with the situation.
We often have F-16 on live and practice air to ground missions over Setermoen Bombing Rng, all of which are inside the class D-TMA. They talk to FAC or whoever on UHF, and with us on VHF. Works quite well actually. (Imagine, a fighter talking to a civ controller, oh wait we don't have any MIL controllers!
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