It isn't going away.
At all the NAS briefings thus far, the Bill & Ben team have said that there will be no Industry consultation regarding NAS, that consultation has been done to death over the last 15 years (sound familiar?), and that Cabinet has said "implement it". The only consultation will be over the implementation of the various NAS elements ie when they will be introduced, the education etc etc. In a nutshell, nothing is negotiable. Evidently when this was said at the NSW & BN RAPACs, no-one objected - they just sat there in stunned silence.
They also claim that CASA has said that no safety case for NAS itself will be required, only one on the implementation.
Not surprisingly, the documentation on the DoTRS site contains a degree of Dick-speak, and the rhetoric at the briefings was a repeat of most of what Dick said here, in a lot of instances almost word for word.
Finally, it was also said - "don't believe what you read on PPRuNe"
