http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/...asp?id=pr11_07
Airservices' Flightwatch service ... is not closing, but simply shifting to new radio frequencies
Means, we are making it part of a different job.
"The transfer ... will not affect the overall safety of the air traffic management system,
Means, we won’t make controllers do FIS when they are too busy.
Flightwatch delivers ... primarily for Visual Flight Rules pilots which include many General Aviation pilots.
VFRs don’t pay for it.
Following a review of Flightwatch in 2006, undertaken in accordance with Airservices’ Safety Management System
There’s that reliance on the "robust SMS" again, glad they’ve got one of those.
Flightwatch’s method of delivery has been changed to air traffic control frequencies
That’s right, added more tasks onto quiet enroute sectors, approach and tower frequencies.
Airservices advised the industry through the Regional Airspace Users Advisory Committee (RAPAC) of the proposed changes in August 2007, and continues to consult with industry through RAPAC and other regional forums.
It was presented as a fait accompli, a briefing doesn’t equal consultation; but this mob wouldn't and doesn't know that.
...a full Post Implementation Report will be available in March."
because they are always without compromise and often require services to be restored right? Huh? Want some coastal swamp land?
Airservices considered historical data which showed that calls from pilots for flight information and alerting services across all 29 dedicated Flightwatch frequencies around Australia averaged in total only 50 calls per day across all frequencies. Responses usually took less than 10 seconds.
So 3 calls one day 97 the next, averages 50, right?
"Airservices is not closing the 29 VHF transmitter stations previously used by Flightwatch," Mr Russell said.
Not throwing the equipment out, just turning it off; it's more expensive to remove the equipment than just turn it off.
"These stations will be used for normal air traffic control...."
Turning 27 of 29 off is normal? Or is that wrong?
Mr Russell said the change of Flightwatch frequencies would give pilots operating in Class E and Class G airspace access to flight information on the same air traffic control frequency they would use to monitor other aircraft activity in their vicinity.
What about A, D and C airspace? Do they admit that it will ‘clog’ up the area frequencies,
without affecting the ATM system?
He said that the change would also lead to enhanced collision hazard information to pilots, through the improved situational awareness available to air traffic controllers.
WTF does that mean, AUSFICers don’t know sh!t? Or controllers know more? Or maybe it’s just BS?
I hear the Minister was on the radio today saying he would look at stopping ASAs plans?