MBZs. Finally and at last. 30 years wasted, total chaos and continual change for the whole period. And the minister's directive finally complied with somewhere! John Anderson
will be happy.
Still no tower at Ballina. The troops
will be happy with a Class E LL of 1500ft over the top and not being able to talk to the proper centre controller on the ground taxiing out to get their clearance before takeoff; change the area freq to 126.05 anybody??
Looking forward to the "enhanced surveillance" aka "approach" services provided by enroute ATC descending into the regional towers. Let's see: lots of new SIDs and STARs, increasing track miles just to make it all work.
Oh and NO mention of the transponder requirement in E for VFR (or the "continuous two-way comms with ATC" for VFR in E).
Tower's does not have a comma.