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Old 30th Nov 2006, 11:16
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Chris Higgins
 
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Okay you guys want something constructive.

1. Listen to Dick Smith and accept much of his experience at Class D airports.

2. Build more radar sites in Australia.

3. Pour more concrete, if indeed, congestion at airports is really that big a deal.

4. Establish a proper education and training program via software courses and do this well before the implementation date.

5. Totally overhaul the pilot training sylabii in Australia: get rid of multiple choice exams where the answers are known well in advance and get rid of the designated examiners and put that all back in control of CASA. The pilots that are being sent over here from there are a disgrace and you all know it. Also, make all Australian CPL holders get an instrument rating as part of their qualification just like it is in most countries now.

6. Send working teams of controllers and regulators to Americas busiest airports and have them trained here, so you all actually know what you're talking about, rather than reading about it in the Newspaper or on the 'net.

7. Establish a deadline for completion and stop leaving the entire airspace in "limbo" while you guys throw stuff back and forth at each other.


That's just for starters!
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