Accident Near Mangalore Airport - Possibly 2 Aircraft down

[OCTA Aus]

Originally Posted by Hoosten

I'll guarantee you, it would not have happened, simply wouldn't have. Australian ATC haven't put two together. Worldwide it is an incredibly low occurrence of ATC caused collision whether inside or out of controlled airspace.



Procedural radial separation is one way of doing it, another way is to delay the aircraft on the ground. Yet another way is to improve the surveillance to lower levels, less delay. If anyone wants to bang on about costs, yes, putting radar surveillance out there would be prohibitive. But guess what's come along and is being used more and more in GA cockpits, all while your ANSP is feeding the trough in Canberra.

ADSB would do the job just fine. Put an ADSB groundstation at all the aerodromes where the class E ceiling is lowered to 1200ft, and change the rules so we can assume radar separation when issuing the clearance to the aircraft on the ground. I’m not sure exactly what an ADSB ground station costs, but if the NBN had been done properly instead of the half effort job they did then it would have been pretty easy.