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Old 21st Dec 2008, 17:56
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Like most snap decisions by people who think they know everything and actually know very little there are many other considerations why AsA cannot and should not take over ADF ATC. To do Balad as a flyer or as ATC you have to do WLM or OAK etc and if you have to ask why you do not know. To do WLM and other bases there are 'situational' security and OH&S considerations that prevent AsA from doing the job. To do WLM as a joint user base there are specilised knowledge requirements that fall outside of AsA ATC practice and again - if you have to ask you surely do not know. The risk managmeent process for ADF is quite different to AsA (sometimes you have to accept higher risk in ADF [obviously])) for operational purposes. To make changes that try to implement AsA ATC into ADF bases without considering all the facts is why Project Genesis, after all of those attempts and years, failed. Snap decision making isn't quite the vogue of the ADF unlike just about every other area of Oz Aviaton. I doubt that ADF flying would want ADF ATC to be too closeley associated with the mess that AsA has become. Easy to go there and difficult to come back.
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