Originally Posted by
George Glass
Sunny, is there any chance that anybody in ATC is ever going to admit that the system is broken? It’s blindingly obvious to everybody at the operational level and to anybody who travels regularly up and down the east coast. It’s broken. It doesn’t work. It fails in its primary mission of moving people from point A to B. It is at its absolute limit now and unless something radical is done soon its all downhill from here.
ATC don’t make the rules, at YSSY acceptance rates and noise abatement (largely dictated by the councils) are almost as much of a pain as ‘adverse’ wx. Most controllers would gladly tell you their gripes regarding the inherent inefficiencies of CASA (not that our whingeing will change anything
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