Originally Posted by
Dick Smith
The Airservices website mentions 9000 SARTIME s expire annually without cancellation.
Perhaps it’s just a handful that result in genuine S and R action.
The costs to chase these mistakes must be staggering!
Must they?
In all but a very select few cases, the outcome would be a call to the pilots mobile phone number (nominated in the SARTIME notification) at which point the pilot apologizes and says "please cancel SARTIME for arrival at YXXX".
I would think the amount of time the operator spends making these phone calls, would be very similar to the amount of time the same operator spends when the pilot remembers to call within the nominated SARTIME for cancellation.
I would bet than less than 1% of those 9000 would require anything more than a simple phone call by CENSAR.