Scare merchants still at it.
To all scare and panic merchants out there re NAS,
especially **** su and good old Tobzalp,
it appears NAS is working quite OK, (alright we could do with the frequencies on the maps being a bit clearer for those of us who have to look them up and aren't told by ATC).
How about the anti Dick Smith fraternity and the ignorant panic merchants pulling their heads in for awhile.
As if to prove my point, the "near miss" west of Maroochydore recently when a lot of people got very excited has, after preliminary investigation, shown no danger of any conflict. The aircraft had passed with 600 vertical feet and one kilometre of one another.
This is not a problem with NAS but ATC communication and appropriate flight planning.
Maintaining a good lookout particularly if VMC also helps.
OK folks, let's get off the personality and political bandwagon and give the system a fair go.
After all, if it was so unsafe as suggested, we wouldn't have all our very competent aircrew buckling up and jetting into the wide blue yonder, would we ?