Originally Posted by
Dick Smith
Fujji. Don’t you see the only reason CASA is proposing ginormous CTAFs is in an attempt to get the system which requires VFR pilots to be monitoring ATC frequencies to work?
Remove the frequency boundaries on the charts and there is no need for the giant CTAFs. We could use the NAS procedure from page 27 of the NAS Reference Guide as follows.
-monitor and announce on the CTAF “ - when en route if operating in the airspace normally used for arriving and departing traffic at an aerodrome “
Frequency boundaries or not, CASA could still mandate VFR be on the area freq (even via the freq method you propose by looking for the site).
CASA could also mandate giant CTAFs even if there were no frequency boundaries. The two are not necessarily correlated.
As an aside, how does one know what the "airspace normally used by arriving and departing traffic" is? It can be different depending on the aircraft. Are they all expected to know the approach procedures and DGA steps etc? Your "in the airspace" may not be the same as someone else's "in the airspace".