Missy,
I appreciate the irony of your post. Doing nothing is not an option! Airservices, CASA and ATSB have done nothing for 18 years. Indeed critics could rightly say we have gone backwards, MNG will forever haunt us of the bull**** of “situational awareness of ADSB”. It is actually “conflict detection, stupid”....that counts...
What I suspect will be proposed will induce future increases of incidents / accidents of causal types already identified by perceived opposing sides of this debate; ie. departing aircraft being told “Clearance NAVBL” and the wreckage found along the track in high terrain or inbound aircraft remaining on control frequency longer and so the correct situational awareness and complete traffic picture is never gained before collision.
Passive do nothing or do liittle solutions options have simply filled extraordinarily the wallets of the “managers” of the holy trinity since TAAATS Eurocat was commissioned.
Australian aviation has wasted 18 years and a significant number of lives have been lost, apparently in vain.
The issues confronting collision risks is airspace below A100 was raised as a trending issue during Operation Skysafe in AsA in 2013/14. It was given no support.
How many AsA ADSB receivers have been specifically commissioned for “surveillance below A100”?
Dick is right, we need a ROYAL COMMISSION into Australian aviation especially below A100.
Though first we need a royal commission into the Australian psyche and why we seem to need so many royal commissions.
We could be better than this...sigh More to follow...
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