CaptainMidnight
correctamundo;
But if the "directive" was
not a churlish Smith attempt to monster the Airservices board into a rollback of the rollback
and
was out of a genuine concern for the improvement of Australian airspace, then the money could be much better spent elsewhere.
Smith has now unwittingly I'm sure, hoist himself on his own petard.
He has scared the $150,000,000 out of the Government, that they didn't have for aviation, despite his personal assurance that they would save $70,000,000 and now can't admit that it would be much better and infinitely more effeciently utilised bringing ADSB in
right now, because it would make
his airspace design arguments basically irrelevant.
I seem to recall
an irrefutably correct refrain of his as being
"using resources best where they are most needed".
Towers where there weren't isn't one of them.
If he were truly and altruistically motivated to "help" he could make a
real Australian hero of himself by hijacking as is his wont, the ADSB agenda as his own, admitting that we can move on from his NAS fiasco and advising the Minister to divert the funds to immediate and free implemenatation of ADSB.
If AOPA were serious and not now just a cipher of Smiths, they would have publicly jumped on the towers/radar directive immediately and gone to work on getting Smith to implement the ADSB in lieu, that would have been a real score. But it seems ideology got in the way again.
The problem is he woudn't b able to say it was his idea and get away with it and that would the test of the man.