How come Sir Angus Houston supports the 1950s system where the Firies at places like Ballina are prevented from manning a Unicom like they do in North America?
It's all about protecting the " System" and the status quo.
He has been quoted in the media about this.
Ballina airport management now have a tender out for ATCs to provide a Unicom as a paid service.
The cost will be passed on to every pilot who uses the airport doing further damage to GA. The US does not have one Unicom operated by paid ATCs.
How come we have never trialled at least one non tower airport in Australia with class E to 700 agl? It's all about zero leadership and resisting change.
Who has been in charge of CASA for the last 15 years? You have it. - ex military people who clearly can't even think of leadership is testing just one airport with class E operated by existing en route controllers to see if it could work.