Discretion to use direct track
Is something controllers now lack
Cover your arse
Has lead to this farce
Should someone be getting the sack?
Whilst there has been much bashing of the Brisbane Manager who put his name to this "Management Instruction" the topic to hand actually came from a national procedures meeting. The requirement was to have been the focus of an imminent National Instruction but suddenly things seem to have gone quiet and Brisbane is left to carry the can as far as the industry is concerned. Melbourne have recorded a wishy-washy watered down version in their procedures and Brisbane has now followed the management instruction with something that at least fits within SOP documentation, but the national voice seems to have gone quiet.
Could it be that the stony silence from Canberra has something to do with the amount of fuss the customers are kicking up?
There is some wisdom in the theory that you should never volunteer and never go first. Methinks that Brisbane going first left everybody else a chance to see the reaction and back quietly away hoping not attract any attention.