Flying Higher, 25 years as an ATC. My post is not criticising ATC's it's criticising ASA. This absolute tripe of providing continual traffic alerts to aircraft 3nm apart (5km) when there's not a hope in hell of them hitting is ridiculous. How is an aircraft in distress in this situation? The 'service' that is being provided here is arse covering. It is not required. Listen to the garbage that goes on on 135.7 on a gin clear day in Melbourne. It is the pilots responsibility to see and avoid at all times. How about liberating ATC's from the disgraceful liabilities they are acting under for something they haven't got a hope of preventing.
How about freeing up ATC's to do the job they're paid to do, separating traffic. How about running a Class D tower under Class D procedures instead of bull****ting the punters and running it as Class C tower. How about sending a few controllers on an exchange program to the US to see a different perspective (for the more dense of you that want to read more into the previous sentence than is there, go ahead).