"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

ATC's job is separation. If they catch something, that's dandy. As such,
if a passenger catches something, that's dandy, too.
Towers do darn little separation as well.

Okay, separation and sequencing.

But they are NOT a safety net, which as I point out in another post, exists
to catch mistakes. ATC is NOT our co-pilot.