One isolated occurrence in Tasmania does not mean an impending national disaster.
The problem in Tasmania would not have occurred had CASA done what they have always done everywhere else for fly-ins and airshows i.e. by NOTAM either declaring a temporary CTAF or specifying a frequency to be used in the vicinity of the ALA.
If what we read here is correct, CASA apparently refused to take such measures, despite having been warned of the possibility of congestion on the FIA, and due to their lack of action, the congestion did indeed occur.
And had the ALA been one published on the charts without a discrete CTAF, the same congestion problem would have occurred on 126.7 potentially causing disruption to other ALAs and users on that frequency.
Last edited by CaptainMidnight; 16th Mar 2016 at 04:29.