Jim Burns wrote:
the VFR corridors or banning flying under Class B shelves. I am repeatedly
amazed at the ignorance of the uninformed aviation critics when it comes to
the words "controlled" and "ATC".

Frankly a lot of private pilots don't fully understand the difference
between talking to ATC and ATC providing traffic advisories and ATC
providing separation services.

I am equally amazed when, after forcing a
change in the name of safety, that these same people seem satisfied whether
the change actually contributes to an increase in safety or not.

Well, if the first change doesn't do anything, then they'll just ask
for more rules, regulations, and restrictions. They'll rarely admit
that their original impulse was wrong-headed. The key is to get these
people involved in their local church, library, or art museum so they
channel their I-wanna-rule-the-world urges into something innocuous.