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Old 31st May 2015, 00:15
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Good on ya Leddie; full of ideology, a bit of union-bashing thrown in, throw a few more punches at the inconsiderate Regional airline pilots, but nothing of substance.

Nothing like being controlled around the sky on/by Centre and having to self-separate with a VFR on the CTAF. To quote MJBOW2:

The day in question involved 3 IFR aircraft and 1 VFR with stratus layers of cloud and rain showers in the vicinity. The frantic controller gave up trying to give ongoing updates on everyone's position as 2 aircraft were on the CTAF and 2 were on Centre frequency then 1 went back to CTAF as they thought there might be a conflict based on Centre's traffic information. In short it was unsafe and an absolute cluster!
You may well ask what that VFR was doing in there! Let's fix that; put in a Class D tower and VFR can pay their fair share, since they are part of the problem...
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