Originally Posted by
Dick Smith
Musta. Come on. CASA has just spent two years and a lot of our industries money in attempting to get the class G with the frequency boundaries on charts working correctly in their view.
First they wanted the system to work by getting all non map marked airports on the ATC frequency that covers that area.
All RAPACs disagreed. Now CASA has come up with another answer to the “ problem “. That is unique 40 mile CTAFs like nowhere else .
Not many like that proposal. So where do we go from here?
Great idea. Why not copy a proven safe system from another country?
Just a suggestion .
Sadly, both CASA and the RAPACs are missing the obvious, probably because they don't like it - the need to forget radio at all when VFR in G or E (except in the vicinity of a marked airfield).
If an airfield isn't marked (like the majority of the farm strips about the place), there is a high probability that you neither know what they are called, or know where they are. This should lead to the obvious conclusion that any broadcast from someone operating from such a field will have zero meaning to you, even if you see a farm strip AND see someone takeoff from it, any radio call will still be meaningless to you. Your best bet is to keep your eyes open and looking out. If it looks like their might be a conflict, assume they haven't seen you and alter course and/or altitude predictably so as to maintain separation. Trying to use radio to contact them will take more time than you probably have.