Originally Posted by Sledled
Why the continual denigration/assumption that VFR are clueless??, a common assumption/attitude among self-confessed and self-described "professionals", whatever professional actually means in this context, as being a commercial pilot has never formally been recognised as a profession.
For example, of the long list of professions whose members can witness under the Statutory Declaration Act 1959, commercial/airline pilot is not one, but a cabin crew member who was a nurse can so do.
Does an owner/pilot like CASA CEO/DAS AVM (Rtd.) Skidmore, AM, automatically become "clueless" when he flies VFR, or is there some other particular defining characteristic to determine automatic VFR cluelessness.
Unbelievable but expected, another good old rant sledging professional pilots. The SD reference to commercial pilots and ex-nurses borders on lunacy and complete and utter irrelevance.
The "particular defining characteristic" is the inability (despite thinking one can) to safely separate oneselves from 100+ punters in a 50 tonnes aeroplane, almost killing them all in the process without telling the RPT crew you are there. You just don't get it, do you?? Skates wouldn't fall into that situation because he's been trained properly, and would quite happily pipe up when confronted with a conflict. What you and Dick don't get is that it doesn't matter what type of airspace it is, the only way aeroplanes will be kept apart is if they know about each other (that's not "lookout", either). Class E places all the onus and decision-making on the weakest link, as clearly demonstrated at Launy. The fact that you deny it just goes to show your either/ ignorance or blinding bias.
Why aren't you campaigning against Broome?
Don't worry, there was plenty of campaigning against dirt-road E. The controller is controlling the airspace anyway, why on earth would you deliberately exclude VFR from the high-workload, high-risk terminal airspace? RPT jet crews have enough on their plate during descent without having to worry about/trying to look out for, unannounced VFRs that might be in the way. And don't give us the "they've got TCAS" stuff. TCAS is not a traffic/risk management tool.
Originally Posted by Dick Smith
The present CTAF calling problems have been caused by the wind back of NAS when the frequency boundaries were put back on the charts.
Absolute nonsense! For many years after NAS
was introduced, The rule was Multicom all all airports without a published CTAF. It had nothing to do with charted Area freqs. The fact that someone n CASA decided to go back to operating on the Area freq is completely irrelevant to freqs on charts. Your arguments are getting more irrational by the day.
Oh, and by the way Dick, you still haven't answered the question about how much extra it will cost to put in and run terminal E airspace in the regions. Obviously your either don't know, can't be bothered to find out, or
do know that the answer involves even more cost to industry...