Originally Posted by
Dick Smith
Unicoms of the proven US style don’t exist in Australia due to CASA concrete minds.
Without an AFRU how do the pilots know they are on the correct frequency when calling in the blind.? Do they just presume that no reply means no traffic present?
A fail dangerous system.
Even my farm strip at Gundaroo has an AFRU.
They don’t cost much!
Not much compared with the cost of four human lives
A lot of these airports are owned/operated by the local councils. I don’t think that’s the case with MNG, however in a lot of places they are. And most of them know very little about aviation operations. They possibly don’t know what an AFRU is, and why it’s important. Then no matter what the price is they aren’t going to pay it if they don’t see it as necessary.