I understand that our last airline accident killing 15 people could have been caused by a simple mistake in relation to letting down to early.
Now I am not a professional pilot so I am even more likely to make an error .
That's why at every other capital city airport the descent is under surveillance control by a properly rated controller .
Sounds sensible to me
At Hobart I was given a descent to 2000 not below the DME steps. That's because the airspace was operated by a 1950s procedural procedure with a controller who is not rated to use the ADSB to do the approach.
In the USA all low level en route controllers are also approach rated to use the ADSB where it is available.
We need to do the same before more lives are lost like Lockhart River.
That is give the airspace under ADSB coverage to the qualified person in the Melbourne centre. Or do we have to wait for more deaths first?