Originally Posted by
Dick Smith
So the USA , Canada and many other countries can provide this safer system but not Australia. At the present time we get an ATC service where the risks are minimal but when the risks go up- in the terminal area- pilots have to become their own " ATCs" . Pathetic system at busy non tower airports most would reckon.
How come the work load on controllers is clearly so much lower than in other leading aviation countries.?
I have spoken to Aussie controllors of low level en route airspace and some claim they could also do approach work as long as we had the FAA enlightened procedural separation standards.
This was supposed to happen in 1992. Why not trial just one airport before we claim it would be too expensive?
And a number of controllors have told me that giving traffic information in our old 1950s way is more labor intensive than actually separating the aircraft in some circumstances .
But we would not know because we have never used en route controllors to provide a terminal service at non tower airports.
"Some circumstances", "some claim" - that's a lot of qualifiers Dick. Your problem is because it might be possible with existing resources in some areas some of the time (there's that "some" word again) that it will be possible in
all areas
all the time with existing resources. Many of them have all or nothing type workloads - you're either bored rigid or can barely keep up.
As to your ludicrous workload claim - you clearly have no idea.
Show us the money! Show us the resource!