Thought there might have been something already on here about PB's latest piece of nonsense. To save money he wants to extend oceanic airspace at night to close RADAR covered sectors to save money. How is this contributing to safety? Is he slightly retarded? Did he miss the whole Uberlingen incident? I really despair working for this company at the moment. It is run by people who have no concept of what ATC is all about. Any money made should go back into the infrastructure to make it better ie better equipment. To close radar covered airspace to replace it with procedural sectors is complete madness. Let's get rid of phones and go back to bits of string attached to plastic cups and call it progress!! I would love him to justify this in court when 2 planes collide in one of his new "budget sectors" when a fully servicable radar feed could have been used. Anyone who does nights will know that even if you only have 2 on freq that they will inevitably pass over each other 1000" apart even though they have 1000's of miles of airspace to use. Garbling won't be an issue when you can't see them at all!
