Buzz box. You say to leave the military out of it however that's not reasonable.
It appears this decision is totally linked to ex military people at CASA.
If not why doesn't Mr Skidmore say this? That's what most CEOs would do- that is correct misleading information.
It's interesting that Sir Angus Houston was part of the group which made the unanimous recommendation to the Minister to go with NAS but has more recently claimed that he supported NAS because it was Government policy and left out his original involvement.
This thread is about the CASA CTAF policy of communicating on Air Traffic Control area frequencies at non map marked airports. This must effect Airservices as it has VFR aircraft who are not paying for any service potentially loading the frequencies.
Why doesn't Sir Angus say anything about this? He must know that this is not NAS compliant. Has he changed his mind about NAS? If so why doesn't he say so?
More importantly it's clear that ex RAAF Mark Skidmore has no stated policy or belief about where CASA is going with airspace . It's clear they want to move away from the North Amerian system however where to? No one knows. No leadership.