Geez Dick your showing your age and whats more I can remember it as well. Used to be called Operations Control or similar. Almost going to school and having your work checked for mistakes.
It was cut out when a lot of the face to face briefing departed along with airflash priority calls through the PMG dept........
You are probably right about saving lives but the bottom line is that it is not readily identifiable benefit that air no services could put in front of their bean counters . I
I can recall seeing a couple of people having their plans BK to Bathurst bounced as the Katoomba gap was below vmc and forecast to stay that way all day.
