Foxmoth,
Do you have an Instrument Rating?
Airways and Controlled Airspace are two different things. I don't have access to your UK charts, But looking on Skyvector it would seem to me you guys have Airways that proceed outside of controlled airspace, just like we do here.
I fail to see what you're getting at when you say Airways and CAS as being the same thing. They're not.
One area where we do differ is random routing outside of controlled airspace. This is absolutely forbidden here below FL150. How do you guarantee you are safely clear of any terrain, and unless using GPS how can you easily pin point your position to even know where you are?
Flying around in cloud like you guys do on a random track outside of controlled airspace makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
Last edited by 27/09; 6th Feb 2017 at 06:05.