Short Notice TIBA for Scheduled Air Transport Operations
That's a very good question. Seems that aviation journos look at atsb investigations regularly on ATSB website for their research but may not be aware of the existence of the REPCON database on said website ? If they look at these pprune threads it may trigger some interest maybe ?
Overnight/yesterday there were a raft of Head Office NOTAMs advising of various closures and operating restrictions due to Airservices. Restrictions ranged from "relevant approval from operating authority" and "access authority" required to "limited SIS provided" and "expect delay for clearance" alongside "pilots considering operating IFR in class G airspace shall contact Airservices by telephone" and "prior to operating in the TRA, pilots must obtain a briefing on contingency procedures from Airservices".
Sometimes TIBA procedures are in force, sometimes not. Times vary from 40 minute periods to 6 hours stretches. Amongst others, Darwin, Gold Coast, Cairns, Ballina and Brisbane Centre were affected. A "helpful" contingency map address is put in the NOTAMs to alleviate any fears /s www.airservicesaustralia.com/notammaps/index.asp One NOTAM listed no fewer than 75 air routes affected by the outage.
I'm not sure what pilots are supposed to make of this fruit salad of airspace and procedures. I wonder if airlines can expect a reduction in enroute and navigation charges seeing as limited to no services are being provided.
Sometimes TIBA procedures are in force, sometimes not. Times vary from 40 minute periods to 6 hours stretches. Amongst others, Darwin, Gold Coast, Cairns, Ballina and Brisbane Centre were affected. A "helpful" contingency map address is put in the NOTAMs to alleviate any fears /s www.airservicesaustralia.com/notammaps/index.asp One NOTAM listed no fewer than 75 air routes affected by the outage.
I'm not sure what pilots are supposed to make of this fruit salad of airspace and procedures. I wonder if airlines can expect a reduction in enroute and navigation charges seeing as limited to no services are being provided.
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Absolutely nothing.
There’s going to be a big prang (not necessarily two aircraft, perhaps aircraft and terrain) as a result of the normalisation of deviance WRT TIBA airspace.
Make no mistake about it - they’re burying their heads in the sand and it will cost lives.
The ATSB report is going to show CASA and ASA to have blood on their hands.
If I was Chief Pilot of an Australian airline I’d be banning flight through TIBA immediately.
What are CASA doing to address this issue from a safety management perspective
There’s going to be a big prang (not necessarily two aircraft, perhaps aircraft and terrain) as a result of the normalisation of deviance WRT TIBA airspace.
Make no mistake about it - they’re burying their heads in the sand and it will cost lives.
The ATSB report is going to show CASA and ASA to have blood on their hands.
If I was Chief Pilot of an Australian airline I’d be banning flight through TIBA immediately.
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Overnight/yesterday there were a raft of Head Office NOTAMs advising of various closures and operating restrictions due to Airservices. Restrictions ranged from "relevant approval from operating authority" and "access authority" required to "limited SIS provided" and "expect delay for clearance" alongside "pilots considering operating IFR in class G airspace shall contact Airservices by telephone" and "prior to operating in the TRA, pilots must obtain a briefing on contingency procedures from Airservices".
Sometimes TIBA procedures are in force, sometimes not. Times vary from 40 minute periods to 6 hours stretches. Amongst others, Darwin, Gold Coast, Cairns, Ballina and Brisbane Centre were affected. A "helpful" contingency map address is put in the NOTAMs to alleviate any fears /s www.airservicesaustralia.com/notammaps/index.asp One NOTAM listed no fewer than 75 air routes affected by the outage.
I'm not sure what pilots are supposed to make of this fruit salad of airspace and procedures. I wonder if airlines can expect a reduction in enroute and navigation charges seeing as limited to no services are being provided.
Sometimes TIBA procedures are in force, sometimes not. Times vary from 40 minute periods to 6 hours stretches. Amongst others, Darwin, Gold Coast, Cairns, Ballina and Brisbane Centre were affected. A "helpful" contingency map address is put in the NOTAMs to alleviate any fears /s www.airservicesaustralia.com/notammaps/index.asp One NOTAM listed no fewer than 75 air routes affected by the outage.
I'm not sure what pilots are supposed to make of this fruit salad of airspace and procedures. I wonder if airlines can expect a reduction in enroute and navigation charges seeing as limited to no services are being provided.
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If you forecast a messy arrival due to whatever reason, simply hold or divert until you are comfortable. Don’t just continue on because that’s what we are normally use to with ATC squeezing us all in. If you need to hold for 15 mins while a circuit sorts itself out then so be it. If people are not talking and you are questioning everything, then divert. If someone is departing against the circuit while you are late in an approach, then I’d be mindful continuing on.
We had fun with one of those OOL arrivals last year. Last in the queue, four ahead. Viz was poor. Qantas and Rex trying to maintain separation but seemed to just confuse each other. Virgin was probably a tad too fast behind. Then a caravan just randomly appeared out of nowhere. We held for 15 minutes while everyone sorted themselves out. It wasn’t great and that airport shouldn’t be unmanned.
. It wasn’t great and that airport shouldn’t be unmanned
Of course as a developing country we cannot expect too much here in Australia. We have not yet discovered passenger delay payments and a guarantee of getting an actual flight. Very soon the lights will go out as well.
