G'day
Capt Claret:
Imagine the poor sod having several IFR, which through ATC co-ordination, the Tower will know about, roll up on frequency at 15nm, along with several VFR popups.
Good point. If this environment at Alice is as busy as you say (i.e. that you routinely have several IFR and VFR pop up at once 15NM out) then it sounds like your real problem is that there should be a radar environment, and perhaps no one has funded that? Why do you think that is? Surely the airspace regs is a separate (albeit complicating) issue, and you would already have a need for radar if your airspace is such a high density environment? Or is it the case that the airspace is not high dnesity enough to warrant radar? Or for all I know the real underlying problem here is purely budgetary?
Andy