Airservices --- One for the lawyers.
I think this is one for Creampuff, or any of the lawyers on pprune. Lots of stories are floating around about what Airservices legally can and can’t do. I'll stick to flying aeroplanes.
The stories are along the lines of only being able to provide services in compliance with their CASA license or licenses, and to a set of standards that are CASA regulations, MOS or whatever. Airservices can “designate” airspace, along ICAO A,B,C,D,E lines, ie: “controlled airspace”, but how much more, in a "regulatory" sense?. There seems to be some credibility to this, CASA was running the NAS 2c case, not Airservices.
It sounds like it gets interesting when it gets to changing what happens in that airspace, once Airservices gives it a name. If the CASA “standard” for C requires radar, who does what to whom to change the “standard” so non radar C can be rolled out (or back out, we wouldn't want to be shafted by pedants, would we) in November.
Is the Airservices “out” in the Ministerial directive no out at all, and C must have radar ?? Is Dick Smith's case being overtaken by this "allegation"from left ( or after Saturday's result, right ) field ??
There are a whole bunch of changes for November that were not part of NAS 2b, can Airservices just “do it”, even though it involves CASA procedures established by regulation, or do CASA have to go through all the consultation processes, risk assessment and the like, and not Airservices at all.
Wherefore art though, Creampuff. Some people are seriously suggesting that Airservices is a bit like the Emperor With No Clothes.