Bob
And a right fine lot they are too.
And without demeaning their obviously high level skills and abilities, how many Boards do we have to change before we get one that fully aligns with certain individuals views?
You'll forgive, us but you must agree we have been fed a steady diet of rhetoric, polemic, horsefeathers and self belief by sometime airspace enthusiasts for too long.
Leave the professionals alone to do what they are good at and selected for, second guessing and running a half baked Greek chorus alongside their efforts is not productive.
The continual sniping and media heroics does nothing to promote the industry nor participation in it and the assumption that we somehow need "saving" from "them" is IMHO not only ill founded but extremely arrogant.
On the one hand we are told the US airspace system is the "gold" standard and on the other hand some of it "remains to be seen", confused I am.
Nobody, not one single individual has a right or mandate to dictate what should or should not be happening in any area of Govt or Public Service. That right belongs to Government and the professional Public Service ultimately at the ballot box. I think you and I might agree that the only way one can really make a difference in that regard is to take personal responsibility by standing up and actually being counted and that can only happen at the ballot box. There are only two ways to go, either hector and bully from the sidelines or get elected and take the responsibility and your chances. All else is puffery.
Back to the thread, so far
we are still waiting for the circle of safety to be closed on TCAS for ALL Australians, including those that work in the mining industry who whilst very small number in relation to the total population produce a very significant portion of the GNP.
So far we are up to the point where Mr Smith is demanding TCAS for all Public Transport aircraft which includes the 10-30 seat FIFO operators, a move that would be difficult NOT to applaud, but will not unequivocally demand the very same safety standards from GA aircraft flying in their immediate vicinity
tobzalp got it in one.