Did it ever occur to think WHY you couldn't get a clearance?
Bloggs,
You are completely blinkered, aren't you, have you ever flown in the US?? You should try it some time, you would be amazed at how straight forward it is, compared to all the bush lawyering that surrounds aviation in Australia.
All you can think of is that the IFR clearance is not available because of conflicting traffic (having told us that you can't have E without radar) ---- but it is beyond your imagination that, just perhaps, the most common problem is that the centre frequency is not available on the ground.
Re. all the safety cases, go talk to your union (if you are a member of the AFAP), don't blame me or any of the CASA/Airservices/NAS/Military/Industry people if you were not kept informed, or misinformed, by your representatives at the time.
As for your comment about G being safer than E because everybody has to use radio---- what have you been smoking?? It must be strong stuff.
As I said somewhere else, go after all the info under FOI, I have absolutely no intention of digging out all my old files, all in an archive at YSBK, let alone "releasing" them. The total count of our storage boxes, just for the NAS consultation documents and all the hazard analysis and mitigation determinations records, was in excess of 20.
Do you really believe that you personally have to be informed in detail, of every proposed change, and be given the chance to agree or veto every detail for a reform process for it to be valid.
The expression" "Get real" comes to mind.
For those of you rabbiting on about Europe, why don't you get a few charts out, and see how small the whole place is. All of UK bar the Shetlands, a large chunk of Ireland, the Channel and a chunk of France and Belgium all fit on
just two half million charts. One ONC (1:5,000,000) just about covers the whole EEC and large bits of the CIS. Having done that, go look for the E, you will find it around the place.
Most of western Europe, and a fair bit of the (old) eastern block, fit into NSW and Victoria.(or the NE corner of the US)
Australia is not comparable with EEC, aviation area wise, but it is with the US, except that we have sod all traffic compared with the US. There are, on average, around about 5000+/- IFR flights airborne, and about 50,000 active IFR flight plans at any one time ----- What is the maximum no. of IFR flights over continental Australia ever reached at one time ---- 200? 300? 400?. Come on you blokes from Airservices, tell us.
That Australia's "IFR Rules" and the way they are interpreted, are dopy, is not a valid criticism of the fundamentals of the NAS. In fact, at various NAS consultations, it was pathetic to hear representatives of one group of pilots ( taking only the position of their airline members) demanding that nobody should be allowed to depart VFR and get a clearance IFR on climb, because if they, the "airlines", one of them flying a Chieftain, for goodness sake, couldn't, so it was only "fair" that operators not constrained by dopy rules should not be allowed to take advantage of the new rules.
And all this because what had been G suddenly became E ------ and therefor "not safe".
Tootle pip!!