Originally Posted by
Group W Bench
If they are VFR and the captain agrees to take a look, where is the violation of seperation? Doesnt seperation below RSVM in VFR the responsibility of the PIC even on an IFR flight plan? I dont get what the big deal is. And lets face it, there is no way that cirrus is going to move fast enough where SW wont be able to get out of the way.
RVSM doesn't have anything to do with it, but outside of Class A. if you report traffic the control can tell you to "maintain visual separation with traffic" and then separation responsibility falls onto the pilot.