Airspace Reform - Your wish list.
Once again an attempt to reform our airspace system is mired in controversy, with uncertain outcome. This is the third time around for me, some of my colleagues have seen this come and go many more times.
My question is, do we need radical change at all? If we do, is it the Airspace that needs changing, or is it the charging regime or some other characteristic?
What aspects of the present system are you unhappy with?
What would you change if YOU had one over the minister?
I cannot see any benefit for anyone in the proposed changes under NAS, I suspect it will die a death before too long. There is no clear operational concept I can distinguish other than allowing a certain citation driver to fly VFR up to FL245 without talking to me. This does not seem a good basis for radical reform.
I am genuinely prepared to support any change I see as being driven by industry, the problem is that I see industry as being the pilots and their passengers, but my managers see industry as the Qantas bean counters. The minister obviously thinks the industry is represented by one citation driver.
We all think NAS is cobblers - so what do we want?