Binos,
Picking up on your thought…
Lets simplify the A and B and C and D and E and F airspace model that some **** shoved down our throats and dream up some sort of system that really is easy to understand and have names that reflect the type of airspace contained.
Something like “controlled airspace” for areas that really need it and “uncontrolled airspace” for the rest? Or is that too simple?
What about “AirborneTransportationCheck Airspace” and “FunctionalSubstantiveOracle Airspace”?
Lets minimise the “controlled airspace” (or whatever we call it – still working on a title) and have as much “uncontrolled” as possible. That way, egotistical pilots on their way back from Lord Howe Island in a light single can do what they like…but enter “Superfragalisticexpialidocious Airspace” (say over Sydney on a busy afternoon) and you coin up big time.
Hey, also lets charge for SARTIMEs too!!! Yeh, and lets charge the real cost of providing briefing materials – pilots pay for charts and docs after all….ok strike that last bit, clearly not everyone buys charts and docs (or gets briefing for that matter – refer TIBA thread!!!!)
Ok, ok ok, get back to back to simple…deep breath…
If you show up anywhere in the system and want any service, you pay up the full cost of providing that service.
Screw up and cause an incident and you pay up.
Screw up, cause an incident AND you are trying to cheat the system; you pay up double.
This charging system would all be in line with Australian Government cost recovery procedures that CASA cite on their Medical Certification Renewal Issue. The cost of service provision and investigation need to be charged to somewhere don’t it and the Gov does not pay Airservices for such things as “Community Service Obligations”
(Flight Service Obligation Airspace???)
And Bino’s probably best if your qualified professionals worked alongside the control qualified professionals and utilised the same type of fancy computer display of a combination of radar, flight plan tracks and ADSB derived info.
No names spring to mind for these professionals either….maybe something out of the airspace names perhaps?
…and Dick, just because something is used successfully overseas, it does not automatically mean that we should copy it…..
Gun legislation from the US
Drug legislation from Europe
Capital Punishment from Various countries
Whaling from Japan
Opium farming in Afghanistan
Genocide in Africa
We can debate the Success, Safety and litigation of all these things and each country would no doubt say they are all this and more.