Triadic. There is of course a chance that the system has been made more labour intensive as that makes more jobs and more penalty rate time!
It appears they have to continually chase Sar times that are not cancelled but keep the problem secret as it employs lots of people .
Yes, always look for a conspiracy theory ...
Who pays for this wasted time? I am sure you know in NZ the pilot pays!
Gee, so we are doing one thing better than someone else in the world. Perhaps we should charge, given there are around 9000 expired SARTIMEs annually.
I suspect Airservices would dearly like to divest itself of SARTIME responsibility but probably can't, and no-one in private industry would take it on without charging.
Something else that isn't rocket science; set an alarm on your phone to alert you to cancel the SARTIME. Sheesh ...
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