Guys,
I know we all think Dick has made our work lives more complex and risky but is this really where we want to go with this thread? Is Dick the real enemy here?
For mine (and I must admit to joining AsA from RAAF post-NAS 2b rollback), the system seems to work quite well now (dare I say, world's best practice?
). As such, seeing as Dick's influence is small and waning, shouldn't our real fight be with the bunch of incompetent hypocrites who work and live in CB?????
The people who tell The Australian that it is all the fault of the previous management AFTER telling their workforce that we TFN took over, he had to fix the important parts of the organisation - HR and finance - before he could sort out ATC. WTF?????????
The people who blame 'three or four controllers' for calling in sick in PH when they have single person ops overnight?
For mine, these are our real enemy here and now, not someone who has tried to fit the world to his view point, almost got there and then failed.