Creamy. It is a change. When we introduced CTAFs it was following procedures that had been proven to give acceptable levels of safety in North America.
In those countries pilots are not approved to make self announcements or circuit calls on ATC separation frequencies.
Do you agree that by publishing ATC sector frequencies on the maps and making it mandatory for VFR to monitor and announce this gives AsA a responsibility to try and prevent a mid air if two VFR aircraft a seen close together in radar airspace.?
In other words if two such aircraft collide and it is shown that ATC workload was low and could have prevented the mid air if the aircraft were called and given traffic on each other when close together.
I will ask again. Who is behind this annoucement- surely if they believe -as Creamy does -that there has been no change they will admit to their involvement? Then again they may hide and that's why I wish to know from others who drove this.
And can someone remind me. What are the MANDATORY calls at an aerodrome ?
Last edited by Dick Smith; 17th Aug 2014 at 04:04.