Kerg
Cooma is higher than it needs to be, the missed approach Cowes and it takes slower SE aircraft a fair way South over Bass Straight.
I spent a couple of hours last night in front of the tele with the Jepp books. I was looking for an approach that:
A) does not overfly Cowes
b) starts below 4,000 ft (arbitrary - but why go higher than you need especially because it gets into the MB - FLI route).
c) does not go too far south over water (ie no 2 / 3 min legs South)
d) has better clearance to the restricted airspace than the old procedure
e) does not go below about 1700ft (ie the 220 ft spot height plus 1,500) and definitely above the old height above the aid(1,400 ft)
In order of preference, here is my list:
Tennant Creek NDB - A (use the NDB pattern for VOR as well)
Tamworth NDB-A or VOR-A
Hughendon NDB or VOR RWY12
Winton NDB-RWY12 (use the NDB pattern for VOR as well)
Southern Cross NDB-A (use the NDB pattern for VOR as well)
So far I've invested only 2 hours or so in this. The question still remains; In the interest of safety training, why won't CASA / ASA put in a the small amount of work required to create an non runway procedure by either modifying the old PID procedure or making a new one based on (say) the Tennant Creek one?