I’m all-a-quiver in anticipation of what genius idea CASA is going to implement.
Is it gonna be a mega AFIZs with an AFIS at each?
Is it gonna be MBZ 2.0?
Just imagine how many Swan River Mallard, Essendon Kingair, Mount Gambier Angel Flight, Cessna 441 Renmark and Cessna 210 mid-air break-up tragedies would have been avoided as a consequence of the re-establishment of AFIZs or MBZs!
The old AFIZ system “worked” alright. Worked a treat. But what 21st century risk is it that an AFIZ system will mitigate, and why is that risk a higher priority than what’s actually killing people?
MBZs “worked”. But they only worked “as planned” when everyone in the MBZ had a serviceable radio that was tuned to the correct frequency and the volume turned up, and broadcasts were mandatory. MBZ is the Latin acronym for “blissful ignorance”. Make them 20nm radius and it’s still blissful ignorance.
We need Towers in Class C. Everywhere.