Take a pay cut? You are seriously barking up the wrong tree. At this point in time, Regional Twer controllers are paid
less than enroute centre controllers. This whole arguement is moot. WE HAVE NO STAFF.
The group above Launy and HB towers is bleeding, (much like every other group). We have controllers doing endless amounts of overtime and still have trouble filling the required shifts. We are regularly running short staffed (although not always short enough to warrant a NOTAM) and to provide break relief, the sectors are often combined in during lower workloads (and sometimes not so light). Not only do we have endorsements on the TAS sector, the other sector we are rated on is the area between Melbourne and Adelaide, SFC -F245. There are times where these two sectors are combined, with a screen range of 700NM.
Do you really want us to be providing a radar approach service at Launy while passing traffic to aircraft at Mildura and looking out to Broken Hill while we take coordination on aircraft inbound to Adleaide?
WE DO NOT HAVE THE STAFF.
The system between enroute and both HB and LT towers works at the moment and works well and is STANDARD between both towers. Multilateration is going to improve things in a lot of ways, but will have a few negatives versus radar. Multilat is coming and the radar will go, have no doubts.
Please take these NAS, full radar coverage pipe dreams, shelve them in the "impossible to acheive right now" file and focus on the real issues.
BTW, NFR1013, you need to brush up on your sarcasm to text conversion
Everyone, VOTE 1, Scurvy D.Dog, El Presidente of the Independant Republic of Launceston. If you really think Scurvy has any interest other than the safety of the travelling public, then more fool you.