Get on with your life !
Now ****su and all the other Dick Smith bashers.........enough is enough.
YOU'VE GOT TO GET OVER IT, anyone would think that Dick and ONLY Dick was the sole architect of the NAS the way you carry on.
But I'm sure it is only a personal vendetta against him and some vested interests thrown in as well.
You know, there is also an Airservices and a CASA involved comprising many industry experts with lots of aviation experience. Are they all "wrong" as well ?
It just happens that Dick has a media profile and they love to talk to him. But where are the silent majority who believe the system can work ?
If you really think that aircraft are going to fall out of the sky, go to the media as well, contact your local member, go to the senior bureaucrats in AS and CASA with your concerns.
Just continually whingeing about Dick won't improve the system.
He may be of some influence in certain areas but really, he doesn't run the bureacracy, the government or the country for that matter !
(Incidentally, the Broome Airport Manager made a serious blunder on the ABC TV tonight when he said that safety will be compromised because there would be no radio communication at Regional Airports, but you and I know very well that every aircraft must have radio communication within MBZ's and any tower controlled airport.
Pity he didn't tell the viewing public that fact)