OK boys'n'girls I was up in the air (15th March) when the Radar went down and a trooley awful day it was too. We did a 65 mile diversion to swing around the worst of it and get to HWS for the ILS down too not much. ( mind you there was the usual twit with a deathwish coming in from Bathhurst!) The radar had received a few hits prior to this, but this event was the end of the road for this wet...
Since then we have been graced wiht the Darwin Management Plan!
This often entails 40 mile splits for aircraft on the same track, 3 min delay behind 717 when your'e in a slow turboprop, stepped climbs and descents in 8/8 CAVOK etc etc
We even recieved a questionairre from ATC on how wonderful the system was and if there was in any way it could be improved.( No change that I have noted)
Why as an operating business can't we charge for these unreasonable delays due to lack of servicibility? What charter of service do ATC run by? When will they FIX the BLOODY RADAR connection?
