I rather suspect many of you will disagree with him, but his opinions are in the real world, not just the narrow inward looking little world of Australian domestic pilots and ATC.
A Journalist with an opinion in the real world, is that an oxymoron?
The incident at LT would not have happened had services been requested by either Jetstar or Virgin airlines.
Let it be noted that
the Julia flew in to Launy last night. Not one peep out of any Nastronaut or journalist - why - because the Tower extended the service. And much cheaper than 2 pages in the newspapers. I bet the left one out of my donkeys yous were just itching to spray that one.
From "THE SCURVY PLANET"
PRIME MINISTERS ACFT 'JULIA ONE' FLYS TO THE THIRD WORLD NATION OF LAUNCESTON TASMANIA WITH NO ATC COVERAGE and almost hit a mountain too
Anyway Julia was last seen surveying the Radar site with about 20 Journalists