Crikey the hidden agendas must be stinky for so many groups to be hammering so many others within the industry. I'm not a Regional but let me get this straight - fairly fast aircraft, busy in the cockpit, full up with POBs down the back, no-radio traffic, no mandatory calls, no specified area freq, no mode Charlie, not even a freq boundary, all sorts of things in the air from Hornets to plastic seat with a lawn mower engine driven by anyone who can afford a plastic seat and a lawnmower engine - in busy terminal areas.
Everything recommended - nothing prescribed - yeah that's gotta be safer. Why not scrub all the lines on charts, wipe the AIP, and ditch ATC - gotta be safer! Hey we could do that with the pharmaceutical drug industry - drug prices would drop - everybody coud afford them because the companies would drop prices (whilst maintaining quality of course). The US drug system would suit us to a T.
You guys!!!!!!!!!!
Us turkeys!!!!!!!!!
You got us a bewdy there.
Yeah - the Regionals have a reason for concern. Especially with all of those peddlers of US NAS cure-all poison. They have all the statistics, from another country, in another environment, with different people, with almost total RADAR to almost ground level. Anyone who has been around aviation safety for more that five minutes knows the value and hazards with safety performance indicators - they are just not accurate to the point of being worthless - never mind if they are from another system in another country.
What smells to me is the energies the IG has gone to implement without design safety case. Tantamount to selling a used car without a warranty and so there goes the IG's credibility and integrity day one. Why implement a system warts and all when you have an opportunity to get the best and discard the crap. Are we really so dense that we think that US NAS is perfect.
You lot have two choices - accept the good with the crap or lobby for the best outcome overall with reasonable safety margins that are appropriate to AUSTRALIA and not the United States of Australia.
Watch out for those who do not wish to compromise, argue only with dodgy stats, keep saying this is good for you etc. They have the scariest hidden agenda. You will also find them hidden underground when we have the first attributable collision.