It is laughable really.
No traffic at KAL? Let's even forget the RPT at MIA.
This from a previous ACF moving KAL to Group 2 for assessment of risk
Craig provided the example of Kalgoorlie which has seen a number of incidents but did not meet the quantitative trigger criteria.
Must be single aircraft incidents
Up to now the detractors have used the USA as a comparator to not proceed in Oz, claimed the subsidy was lunacy, and so on.
Now a prominent USA researcher suggests the subsidy and instead of noting that Oz - according to his theory - is bang on the mark, the detractors move back to the big sky theory.
It worked well when the DC3 was doing 120 kts and the Auster 70.
I sometimes wonder how NASA would ever have reached the moon had they been headed up by the detractors - more likely they would have reached 20000 leagues under the sea - they are far more writers of fiction than men of vision for aviation
