Dick,
The only people in Australia afraid to stand up to Qantas are CASA, Airservices and the entire House of Representatives. The sorry affair surrounding the changes to the Arbey Two approach is evidence of that.
I'll tell you what, Dick. I've changed my mind. You can have your tower at AV provided the following conditions are guaranteed by Act of Parliament.
1. The tower is not responsible for any airspace above 2000 ft AMSL.
2. That no taxpayers money is used to subsidise Qantas and Fox's arrangement.
3. The CLL is not lowered to meet the AV CTZ.
4. No D class is established between the CTZ and the CLL
The point is that, as a private pilot, I don't want to fly around the zone burning my money so a commercial company that spends the equivalent of my entire year's salary on postage stamps can have the air they don't own all to themselves.
If there is to be an increase in safety at AV to tower level then Qantas and Linfox should fund the entire thing and that includes any extra costs born by private operators using the airspace. They don't own the air.
Walrus