Ten fatalities in 9 weeks?

[Piston_Broke]

Originally Posted by Dick Smith

Flight Service and its $40 million cost a year

I recall being told at an industry meeting by Airservices quite some time ago that towards the end when the flight service units and briefing offices at GA airports had closed that flight service was costing about $15m per year.

And then when they were finally got rid of, very little was saved because

1. the functions FS provided in class G/OCTA were transferred to ATC, who were paid significantly more and required additional staff and consoles to do the work hence ATC costs increased, and
2. the facilities used by FS e.g. FIA VHF outlets didn't disappear, they were transferred to ATC.