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DROPS
This is so sad. It is the type of decision making happening everywhere thanks to the latest cohort of "smartest guys in the room".
Signing off on risks to obtain "efficiency dividends" in the short term, knowing they will have moved on before the risk is realised (most of the time). It is endemic in what we're once trusted companies and organisations.
I can assure you it’s costing the airlines a small fortune no longer having SAMU( Sydney aviation met unit) in existence. Unfortunately in the ATC world we have gone backwards by about 20 years due to decisions made during COVID. No doubt in the future some bright spark will suggest to their boss what a great idea it would be to have an embedded met unit at major airports and the wheel will turn again, in the meantime we are all left trying to make the best of the current situation. Will be interesting too see what the ATSB have to say about the current met system when they investigate the QFA 28 diversion.