Spod this guy is not going to see the massive benefits to be had by having full surveillance accross the country would deliver.
I'm in a country with 5 times radar redundancy (that is 5 radar heads all fully covering the entire FIR (albeit in a small FIR)), and we have installed 4 ADS-B outlets, and soon to be 6. One reason is we get 10 times faster update rate than with radar heads, so when vectoring into Dubai we get a more accurate picture and a quicker indication of turns etc.
Secondly, while it is unlikely that all 5 radars will fail simultaneously the chance of our telecommunications provider dropping the ball (who controls all the links from the radar heads to our centre) is a lot higher. If this happens right now between 35% and 40% of our traffic stays on radar, and even if we lose our FDP we still have a callsign as our system displays the callsign sent as part of the ADS-B message from the FMS of the aircraft.
Finally as some of our radars come up for life extending services, with a full and reliable ADS-B network, we can start decommissioning a few of them. The savings in doing this are massive as an ADS-B fibreglass stick costs practically nothing whereas a major life extending radar head service and calibration are big bikkies.
Dick, you need to see the writing on the wall, ADS-B gives so much, and saves so much cash all around, it is the future, and I wouldn't be buying shares in companies who manufacture and service radars.
