I do not want to bash him on this but this is cart before the horse stuff. He finally is getting a means of having the equivalent of radar coverage to the ground at whichever site he wants to try. Yet, he wants exactly the wrong console to change resolution to provide a positive control vectoring service right to the ground...complete with tower facilities for a ground control. This only works if everything is squiting ADS-B yet he wants exemptions to be made. He doesn't want one in one out procedural ala Coffs tower in bad wx yet that is exactly what he will end up with if not every aircraft can be identified.
I will say that there is nothing wrong with a class E to the ground for Ballina...in fact, this is already in the pipeline. Comms have been improved in the area already. However, do not use enroute! Remote TWR/APP hybrid with responsibility out to 30nm or where it overlaps with CG...if he asks for that?
Last edited by OZBUSDRIVER; 25th Aug 2015 at 12:19.
Reason: bloody spell checker...squirting!