your dead right QSK? Airservices have no right to be conducting private surveys and deciding that we need their services. They are a government business enterprise to make profits - thats why all regulatory responsibilities were removed from them and handed to CASA because of an obvious conflict of interest. Its no different than me, of joe bloggs aviation services, saying to aerodrome operators that I have decided that you need this Unicom service because of a survey I have done and, after a trial, I will be introducing it ! You know where I would be told to go. But, unfortunately most councils who operate aerodromes these days, are still under the impression that airservices run the show. Remember, they were the ones that created the current lack of air traffic services at regional aerodromes when they withdrew ATC towers and disbanded Flight Service at these airports in the first place.