Originally Posted by
megan
What's wrong with the USA system of the area outside twelve miles just being declared a W area (warning). Students, VFR only, used to watch out for the airliner (Electra) transiting in order to bounce it, not too close mind. USN did their exercises off the west and east coast in W areas, dog fighting etc, the whole bit, IMC as well. Don't recall any military/civil conflict, near miss etc
Nothing wrong with that at all. It’s open to any country to inform the world that the country is engaging in risky military activities outside its and - more importantly - everyone else’s sovereign territory.
What would be wrong is Australia purporting to restrict, on pain of criminal sanction, flights of foreign aircraft through airspace that isn’t within Australian territory. That’s the kind of thing that Australia and others insist on demonstrating to the Kamarians.
But that’s what Australia has been purporting to do. And instead of fixing it, properly and quickly, the bureaucracy has come up with the perfectly stupid ‘solution’: Continue to restrict, on pain of criminal sanction, flights of aircraft through airspace that isn’t within Australian territory, but only if the aircraft are Australian or operated under the authority of an Australian certificate.
It must make the ADF feel safe, knowing that when training in restricted airspace outside Australian territory it’s being ‘protected’ from Australian interlopers but not foreign interlopers. Only in Australia…