Akro
This didn't take long either.
International reporting on ADS-B in Oz – 2005
http://www.icao.int/APAC/Meetings/ar...sbsitf4rpt.pdf
Agenda Item 1 6.2 through 6.5.7
http://legacy.icao.int/icao/en/ro/ap...B_TF3/ip21.pdf
Airservices had issued Request For Proposals for 1500 shipsets of GA Avionics (initial proof of concept fit-outs). Two companies had tendered way back then, no doubt that RFP alone would have accelerated 1090ES GA gear to market.
Australia cancels ADS-B equipment plan for general aviation, reconsiders system's use under 30,000ft - 6/29/2006 - Flight Global
Airservices cancelled the RFP late in the process after a noisy minority had successfully unnerved the Political leadership of Government.
The proposal/Project ATLAS – 2007
http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dl...leName=jcp.pdf
Cost Benefit Analysis of Project ATLAS – 2007
http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dl...e=analysis.pdf
The Finance Department eventually rejected the Project ATLAS cross-industry funding, and the rest is history. That was back in 2006-7
Warren Truss was the responsible Minister! Subsequent, the VFR mandate was dropped, and the other dates pushed back, then re-set based on a raft of inputs such as industry input (ASTRA), traffic density, growth, safety infrastructure necessities, and efficiency.
That was 7 years ago!!!
It is unfair really to blame/accuse AsA, CASA, and the Dept given the work done over many years to introduce ADS-B
with financial support for GA owners. What a shame the few nay-saying, soapbox seeking drongo's in industry here in Australia denied the rest of our industry exactly what the FAA are now providing the GA industry in the US i.e. financial support for adoption.
That horse has long since bolted! Gates still flapping in the breeze....
