Originally Posted by
Mr Approach
Seriously a UNICOM service could make all the difference, for a number of reasons.
I'm not sure it would have.
A UNICOM would not know about the inbound aircraft until it called, and when that happened hopefully the operator would have stepped back and let the two aircraft talk to each other and arrange self-separation, both having been given traffic by ML CEN.
One of the issues reported by the industry after UNICOM trials a few years back was that on occasions they contributed to frequency congestion.
As to why there are not many here, comments made on this forum in the past were who would pay their salaries and indemnity insurance in the event of something going wrong.