Does anyone else find it frustrating that, given the potential insurance problems, we have either to:
a) trust our luck to rediculously small charts (Met Office*) or totally out of date reasonable-size ones EuroControl) or
b) commit staff to plotting the advisory co-ordinates for ourselves, every six hours ... assuming we have the spare staff to do so.
Why* in God's name can't the regulator(s) and/or various Met Offices come up with something definitive, and useable?
*Sub-"why"s: Why do the two available charts not match and why the hell aren't they produced at the same time from the same data? Don't tell me it can't be done - no, really, don't - as we can apparently be expected to do it from the available data (advisory co-ords)...
EASA has, to my mind, demonstrated at the first real pan-European safety hurdle that the system is at best impotent and at worst incompetent. I wonder if we ought to start thinking about performing an audit or two upon the 'regulators'.