Taken from the Courier-mail story above...
The shocking cases came only weeks after Australia's air safety watchdog ordered a top-to-bottom review of Air Services Australia after too many close calls in the air
Creampuff, what is it about that statement you don't understand? Everybody involved is aware something is very wrong- quantifiably wrong. The organisation is not meeting even it's own standards regarding Breakdowns of Separation. BoS' don't mean a mid-air occurs, but they do point to a greatly increased risk of one! Now, whilst Joe Public might have no idea about the actual risk in getting from A to B, you only get to roll the dice so many times before Joe Public finds out in a very big, messy, front-page sort of way. You seem to be saying that the government has no role to play in prevention- only in the cleanup afterwards... because that is when the public gets interested! AFTER the event. Extremely cynical, and IMHO, an
incorrect viewpoint. Good government isn't necessarily poll-driven, nor should it only deal with topical issues. Sometimes the important things
are what goes on unsung. True, it may not, of itself, win elections, but whatever happened to doing what is
right? A concept that seems to have gone missing in this day and age.
The people at the coal face get pissed off because
it doesn't have to be like this. Furthermore, this 'groundswell' of people moving out the door has always been there, it's just that being the only employer in this field in Australia, there is nowhere else to go except overseas- something that is not everyone's cup of tea. Many, many guys weigh up the prospect of leaving and doing something else, but find themselves trapped by the money. That is human nature. It's not 'indispensability syndrome', or low self esteem. It's also a source of a great many of the ills at AsA- the management (and the rest of the organisation)
know they have the practitioners
by the balls. Most guys love the job, hate the contemptuous way they are treated, having simply a choice to grin and bear it or leave and earn a lot less money- not very popular with wives/husbands/families- or, head off overseas- also not very popular with wives/husbands/families. So, effectively, there can never be a stampede of change, as you describe. Nothing to temper the lunacy that goes on in management except the stuff that is measurable to the outside world- and even that is a distortion (see the reduction in TIBA- then ask any controller why that is?).
Where are my "indispensability" pills?