POLL. The NAS from your perspective

[Woomera]

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[tobzalp]

None of the above.

Change 'airspace' for 'Aviation' so as to look at funding and costs.

add option

Yes. Aviation reform is required to fully assess the costs associated with the provision of certain services and the benefit of funding/assistance with new technologies.

[Feather #3]

Voted NO with my heart, and then thought!

If we're looking at the post-Nov 2003 stuff, the answer's NO. If you go back to AMATS, the YES/Combination middle answer is correct.

Maybe a wasted vote, but this has been going on so long, you almost need a history degree to achieve balanced opinion!!

G'day ;)

[Chimbu chuckles]

Voted no!!!

I don't believe the system that existed before Nov 2003 needed anything other than tweaking. Some of the 'participants' needed educating in the reasons and methods for participating too.

How much simpler would it have been to put out an education package to industry and individuals about a system that was well understood by most already?

Chuck.

[Woomera]

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tobzalp

maybe but as I said this may be the first of a number of polls to required to cover the ground and the proponents have suggetsed that airspace reform is an economic answer to our woes .

Feather#3 ahh them were the days :envy: :) true, but I've only got 5 options per question :\

[Fission]

Changes should be made for the greater good, not for the benefit of a Minority.

The difference between a Democratic and Autocratic government perhaps ?

Coming from both sides of the ATC / Pilot fence i'd say yes to some tweaking for our international brothers/sisters so that they receive a familiar service when they arrive Down Under ?

The last changes have been ill thought out, poorly educated, implemented in an amateruish fashion. The additional cost to our company has been $$$ already for NO MEASURED IMPROVEMENT IN SAFETY...

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Fizzy

[GT-R]

Stupid poll. Of course the vast majority will vote NO.

[Chimbu chuckles]

Now I know that people can only vote once.....but I'd swear Dick has voted twice;) :}


Chuck

[Binoculars]

No he hasn't Chuck, one of those was Woomera. :)

In all fairness, it's hardly a scientific poll as W has admitted, and will ultimately prove nothing, a point already graciously made by GT-R. ;) My original suggestion for a poll was suggested rather tongue in cheek to mock Dick's hypothesis that a lot of ATC's support NAS, a proposition so completely removed from reality as to be laughable, but we're becoming used to that sort of unrealistic rhetoric from him.

I know my poll was completely unenforceable and therefore meaningless, but I don't see that making up a poll to reflect what has been quite obviously the massive majority opinion on this forum is going to achieve much either.

I do notice that none of the pro-NAS advocates have been willing to hang their shingle on either a safety or an economic benefit, all choosing a combination of the two. I find this fascinating, implying as it does they genuinely believe there was a net safety benefit behind the reforms, a difficult tenet to propose for anybody except Dick, plus a significant net economic benefit, a suggestion which has been completely discredited by the people appointed to investigate it.

Funny how easily dogma can overcome reason.

[karrank]

I've thought for a while about this, and have decided I want the US system, with refinements. NAS tried to deliver a system that gave Dick Smith what he wanted (fly anywhere, listen to cd's and fack everybody else). It is just dumb to have ATC sitting at ATC consoles giving the same service Flight Service did 30 years ago.

Look after the big boys with positive separation. Bug-smashers let into the holes between them.

Full ATC service for IFR everywhere else, with the IFR able to opt out of separation when conditions are suitable.

Full advisory service available for VFR, on going, on request.

No idea how to do it.

[Uncommon Sense]

Karrank,

I tend to agree in some areas.

If we were to adopt the US system completely, I can see that we would need a fair increase in the number of Air Traffic Controllers however.

Why? Well Sectors size would have to reduce to be able to adequately acquit the Class B, C and E traffic passing responsibilties as per the US system. (Remember target resolution or 2.5nm dependant on the class). These time/frequency available critical, as well as display resolution critical actions / scanning requirements make the full adoption of the US system in many ways impractical. It would cost more - not just the airlines, all users.

Dick Smith goes on quite a lot about Australia having less traffic than the US - well he doesnt seem to focus much on the corresponding truth from that perspective - there is a lot less GAand VFR traffic as well. So the adoptionof the US system to fulfill this small requirement is not cost effective - as we have seen in the last year.

The Australian system evolved from putting resources where they are most needed. While there are some improvements that can be made they do not in my view involve adoopting a system that doesnt suit.

The money that has been wasted in the political exercise to date could have in fact solved most of the issues. NAS in that regard has set us back.

You know who to thank.

Remember not that long ago, The Minister, AirServices PR, DOTARS, NASIG etc. were calling the Controllers and the Airline Pilots scaremongerers. Now,they are not saying that. They are saying that the system has failed - not very loudly , but nonetheless those who said it would not work or save money have been vindicated.

There is only one person left still shouting scaremongerer, and blaming the growing list of organisations that will no longer support him in his political quest.

Wouldn't it be nice to know just how much all this has really cost? And exactly how it has been funded?

[Howard Hughes]

Just a quick question a little off topic.

Bino's said:
No he hasn't Chuck, one of those was Woomera.

My question is does each individual Woomerai get a vote or is it just one collective vote?

Cheers, HH.
:ok:

[Woomera]

Howard Hughes

We might be many, but we only get one vote and we only voted to save us the trouble of clicking "View Results" each time we wanted to have a look.

As we said the poll system only allows one vote per user name and we voted in a way that we thought would have the least effect on the results. The "polling" part of the programme is incorruptible (insofar as any computer programme can be) and we cannot influence the results or access the pollers information even if we were interested in doing so.

[World'sWorst]

What a joke.

Call this a fair survey?

Look at the post's on this site over the last year - 96% anti-Smith, 4% pro-Smith.

And lo and behold - survey result - 96% anti NAS, 4% pro-NAS.

What a crock.

[Atlas Shrugged]

That in itself speaks volumes.

AS

[poison_dwarf]

You have got to love this thread our national airspace reform process has been formed and rejected based on the dislike of one man now there is real intelligence at work. I suppose people will vote yes or no based on their expert opinion and be backed with statistical analysis of traffic movements or is it perhaps gut feelings what a way to run airspace. Its all a croc the latest news that Qantas are happy to fly through class G into Avalon and mix with GA traffic proves money is the real reason for the rollback.

[Capt Claret]

poison_dwarf

You said, our national airspace reform process has been formed and rejected based on the dislike of one man

I don't think it has been rejected by most professionals in aviation because Dick is associated with it. It seems to me that Dick is still peddaling the same sort of airspace that has been found wanting over the last 10 or so years.

If Kingsford-Smith, Reg, or some other respected aviaton professional had suggested NAS2b, I'm confident that the rejection of it would be much as it is.

[Pinky the pilot]

No!! And others have said why in a far better and more eloquent manner that I ever could!:ok:

You only live twice. Once when
you're born. Once when
you've looked death in the face.

[Woomera]

Thank you gentlemen and ladies, I'll close this one.

I'll leave you to interpret the results as you wish.

There is another forum whose very existence relies on plagiarising PPRuNe, that suggests, despite there being 4 yes v 1 no, the questions were biased against the NAS.

So to keep it really simple for them :rolleyes:, let's try a much more fundamental poll that simply requires an "unqualified" yes or no. :)

Click!