Originally Posted by Dick
Cost is negligible to train the existing enroute controller to do the hobart approach work.
Originally Posted by Dick
Could be tried here! No separate approach cell is reqired
I'm going to call BS on this. The cost to
train may be negligible, but what about the cost of the extra controllers? Controllers have said their screen coverage during normal ops is massive. How is it possible to run an approach service all over the country at every IFR airfield without extra controllers? Where I fly, the enroute controllers are working flat out as it is based on the R/T. It would be impossible for the same people to do approach work as well. There would need to be extra controllers. What is it, $1m per console (numbers form ten years ago)? How many aeroplanes per controller here and in the US? And don't peddle the 20x stuff: the US has effectively 20 times the airspace.
You're a businessman. Show us the numbers.