Originally Posted by
****su_Tonka
With the dismantling of AUSFIC, and those duties being placed on the sector controllers, the airspace restructure, and the ATC staffing review, the issue of whether ATC can discharge their current duties should be of more immediate concern - instead of calling for the addition of extra Radar services.
This also throws a spanner in the works for any NAS acceleration. It's a whole different ATS environment, so I would presume that new safety assessments, HAZIds, Cost/benefit analyses etc will need to be done.