alphacentauri: Educate me please
Dick was making the point that there is now technology available (ADSB) that can enhance flight safety and reduce cockpit workload yet it isn't being used in a manner that utilises all of it's benefits.
In this case as described by Dick, how?
Forgive me for making assumptions, I assumed some similarities to this side of the ditch. Over here if there is radar coverage then the controller looks after terrain clearance, if there's no radar then terrain avoidance/clearance responsibility falls onto the pilot which obviously increases workload.
Silly me, I figured as an enabler of new technology, ADSB would enhance radar coverage and give radar coverage where there was previously no coverage. Thus giving the opportunity for controllers to take over terrain clearance responsibilities and reduce cockpit workload.
At least that is what I thought Dick was getting at. Obviously not.