SM4 Pirate,
Even if the tower costs $500,000 per annum, that would mean 50 cents per passenger because there are 1million of them per annum at Avalon.
I would certainly be happy to pay 50 cents to have someone in the tower rather than airlines flying around, sometimes in cloud blind calling and hoping that other aircraft are on frequency.
The point I was making is that the safety study was a sham because it never actually mentioned the cost of manning the tower – whether that be $300 per hour or $500,000 per year.
Isn’t it amazing that Civil Air and the AFAP also support Airservices on this and are not supporting my call for the tower to be manned. I wonder what type of back room deal has been done – no doubt, it will come out one day.
JackoSchitt,
Re: The flightwatch changes
From what I understand no proper safety or cost benefit study has been done. It appears that Airservices go ahead and make decisions in this way because no one stops them.
Last edited by Dick Smith; 12th Oct 2007 at 00:59.