Clare Prop. Once they started the wind back of the NAS by printing a special chart with all the ATC frequency sector boundaries on the rot set in.
It was then not possible to continue with the NAS education package because NAS will not work correctly with such a design- or more to the point. Non design!
The CASA advice to monitor and give circuit calls on the ATC area frequency is the logical result of the wind back.
In fact there appears to be no one at CASA who as any idea or plan in relation to airspace design.
Over the last eight years I have offered to give a briefing on what the Government approved NAS policy was. They will not have a bar of it. Clearly don't want to be contaminated by a rational plan that has been well proven in both Canada and the USA.
Even Mr Skidmore appears to have been immediately captured by the existing iron ring of concrete mindset and has not instigated any review of why the NAS policy was wound back just as it was starting to work.
And Angus Houston was one of the strongest supporters of NAS when he was a member of the Aviation Reform Group that made the NAS recommendation to John Anderson.
So be wary of his claim in The Australian newspaper that he was only supporting NAS because " it was Government policy". I even have a copy of a letter from Angus to the ARG confirming that the NAS as he saw it was to follow the US system.