For those who don't have the time, or stomach, to read through the thread ... here is my take on it:
It is CASA's attempt to de-harmonise Australia with the rest of the aviation world
- They wish to implement non-surveillance Class E Airspace above Class D Towers ... initally Broome, Karattha and Avalon
- That means that IFRs are separated from each other ... and VFRs are unknown (and therefore "not there")
- CASA eventually saw that non-surveillance Class E may have some problems ... with high capacity Jet IFRs descending through invisible VFRs and Controllers directing IFRs into the path of invisible VFRs
- CASA, using some exceptionally lateral thinking, found a way around it ... they created Class E+ .... in which VFRs are required to broadcast to ATC and follow all ATC instructions.
- The silly amongst us thought that, instead of stubbornly sticking to their near religious idealism, CASA might have been better off making the airspace Class D or C
- CASA will be holding meetings in Broome & Karattha on 15th & 17th June ... to take questions.
So CASA is "the" NASTRONAUT. It's singular, not plural!
Somehow I was thinking that a few individuals were so influencial that they were dictating matters to the regulator. Just goes to show how one can misread threads.
