Originally Posted by
Scurvy.D.Dog
then the poor sods waiting to go will just love the IMC runway roulette .. trying to decide if there is enough room to line up and go in front of one on approach in cloud??
what would the Centre approach controller use to assess departure and arrival separation in IMC and VMC???
.. could make for an interesting and very exciting formation takeoff/missed approachs into cloud
yih ha
thank goodness for TCAS
oops
not everyone has that?!
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I don't have an opinion either way yet, but some questions that your post raises for me ... what happens now when there's one inbound on the ILS in cloud and one wants to depart?
Originally Posted by
Scurvy.D.Dog
how bout yall think of:-
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- The sorts of things that can be piped via SAT/NET to the Centres?
- What are the contingencies if some or all of that information gets trashed??
- What will be the risks and delays of not having onsite eyes and equipment??
- What will be the comparative traffic movement capabilities??
- Is the usual and expected traffic quantity and type compatible with the class of airspace and service??
- How does IFER and AEP management compare?
Sounds very familiar ... closing on-site Flight Service Units (Broken Hill, Dubbo etc) and remoting them back to the Centres ... despite all the shortcomings you mentioned above, it went ahead ... If and when they seriously start talking about this stuff, you better have a good "money" argument on hand .. that's what talks these days!
P.S. The Broncos won!