Having said that, I am certainly supportive of more transponder requirements for VFR aircraft.
I have a proposal which will allow this to happen with funding coming from saving in other means – but some people won’t like that.
Dick,
Now the real intentions appear! What proposal one wonders? Another report, Willoughby style - $70M savings somewhere, that will be the basis of new reforms over a 5 year period. From your recent posts, one could assume that savings may be found in the mandatory use of TCAS in certain areas, and then amending the requirements to use TCAS as risk mitigation. This could lead to the removal of the provision of enroute directed traffic information by ATC, and produce a saving of lets say $70M over 5 years (or was that annually).
One wonders whether this "proposal" will be announced around 02 - 03 Jul07 by the newly formed CASA branch of airspace reform??