Originally Posted by
Advance
And therein lies a huge problem Captain Midnight!
With the separation of Airservices to be only a "service provider" they no longer have any significant Head Office staff professionally qualified and experienced driving large aircraft around the sky. To be blunt, they can be the best ATC in the world but they no longer know what they are doing and why - they do not understand the need of the pilots and operators to whom they, nominally, provide a service.
When blokes like Merv Fowler left Airservices, the IFR pilot experience left also.
Not sure I interpret you correctly, but to clarify ....
It was the airspace regulation and design experience in CASA OAR LB and I were referring to, not Airservices.
A couple of people experienced in such matters (as well as ATC) moved from Airservices to CASA OAR when they commenced, but retired a few years later.