No. Half wound back when it was put in. What was wrong with a CTAF with a US style Unicom?
Don't you mean wound too far forward?
What was wrong with a CTAF with a US style Unicom?
They tried to find someone who'd do it but because it didn't pay, they all said "stuff that, do you really think I'd sit around in this hell-hole yabbering to planes or nothing? I've got better things to do like train for fires...".
the interim AFIS has operated ever since staffed by ATCs from Karratha
They sound too relaxed...
YPPD AFIS is the epitome of an uncontrolled aerodrome; short, sharp, concise and to the point traffic info by experienced aviation professionals keeping an eye on weather, and other things. It's a pleasure to operate into YPPD, and it's easy to see how a yank-style unicom (or the fireys, no offence)
wouldn't work well.