As I understand it there are about 20000 commercial movements a day in the US... in Australia about 1000. How come the NAS system in Australia is so unworkable?
Theres lots of areas in the NW of the US were radar coverage is poor or non existant (Sun Valley Idaho is busier than hell and buried in some very impressive mountains) yet they seem to have no trouble there.
Australia in comparison to the European and North American continents is a pretty benign place to fly, not a lot of big mountains, reasonable weather and low traffic densities...
I've got quite a few thousand hours flying all over and can't fathom the often fanatical abhorrence to the NAS system in OZ.Can someone elighten me?