Hi Dick,
Your Quote;
...........(in the old days) Flight Service Officers could provide a service to both IFR and VFR with their existing staffing levels. ....................
A V E R Y S A F E system...............IMHO!!
A 'Not quite so safe system' was the post 'VFR' period.....was that
11/11/93?? .... its that 'memory thing' again.... when the service was confined to IFR only about other IFR.
Imagine now, if we still had the FSO situation, using ADSB to give a full traffic service to ALL acft OCTA.....at our 'then, minimum staffing levels'...
Easier now - not so many PVT acft around - and the 10-15 seaters have now been replaced largely by the fewer-in-number 40 to 100 or so seaters.
Affordable and 'Safe'........Assuming that everybody had access to ADSB of course.
(No Dick, not trying to shut the gate after the horse has bolted...
- thanks again for the redundo........
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