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Australia has a regulator and an ATS service provider.
At the organisational level it seems a good idea, BUT
You end up with a SERVICE organisation run by people who know nothing whatever about flying aircraft or the economics of any part of the aviation industry.
The old public "service" Peter principle applies; people are promoted until they reach their level of incompetence.
We need pilots and statisticians working on ATC standards at ICAO, not those whose job it is to apply them.
So Skywards747, I appreciate your view but as a Pilot, an ATC and an ex regulator, may I suggest the need is to define the managerial skill set needed in each role then set out an organisational structure to optimise your chances of achieving the goal?
What we have here is not optimal at all.
A pilot does not do the structural analysis on his aircraft; a cleaner does not get to formulate the cleaning chemicals, and an ATC should not be deciding what ATS services to provide, to what standard, when and where.