So after. 29 years and all the ideas, passion, arguments, lost friends and people killed in accidents where are we?
i’ll ask three questions:
- Aren’t we better than this?
- Can any of you who posted on the topic over the last 30 years, or Dick Smith or the current CEOs of AsA, CASA, even ATSB explain in detail how a SAFIS will work?
- Surely the families of the four people killed in the MNG midair and the controller in AsA deserve better than this, as we are all partly responsible for how they feel?
It would be easy to say MNG was just an example where 2 IFR aircraft were on a collision course ( in conflict ), given traffic, presumably a TAAATS system safety net ie STCA ( not a tool ) alarmed and the aircraft still collided.
In truth we all know the problems and issues are more complicated than this....as Ex FSO Griffo states almost 30 years it started, the world has changed a lot in that time, but we haven’t..???
We are the “lucky country”, could be a great country but we have the potential to be downright dumb, stupid and mediocre.....