Of course Hitch , if he thought there was a collision risk should have requested a flight following service as they do in the US and Canada and he would have received , workload permitting, a full traffic information service.
As it is now he received a uniquely Australian intermittent service that is sometimes provided but mostly is not. And never where it is really required, such as the Bankstown training area or at places like Hornsby where collision risk is high. And as he points out it will not be able to be provided at all with the new CASA 126.7 below 5000’ system.
He brings up an excellent point. By CASA designing a system that does not operate anywhere else in the world other serious safety problems are created. That’s why they black out names and have no one responsible. Mr Carmondy would normally have overall responsibility but he can claim he knows nothing about aviation!
That’s why I consistently state that we should copy the best proven systems from countries where the traffic density is up to 30 times higher. Just commonsense.
Last edited by Dick Smith; 25th Dec 2017 at 10:20.