PPRuNe Forums - No Nas is good Nas

You have got to love the analogies being used to explain the effectiveness of "see and collide". Lets see, we have the one where your a go-cart on a freeway, oooh, and how about the one where your on Sydney Harbour, I like that one.

Here is another, the airspace below 10000 feet OCTA in class G or E is the empty chamber in a gun. The unkown (no broadcast or transponder) traffic on a collision course is a loaded chamber...etc,
mmm, it sounds a little like, umm, yes thats it, Russian Roulette.

Do the people dreaming up and implementing the changes have a grasp of what they are doing. I mean, are they, or have they been qualified Traffic controllers or Pilots. Have they actually experienced what its like in the real world, flown 6 sectors/hours day after day after day, and had their eyes darting around the sky like Mike Smiths during his jolly to Albury. I would be much more comfortable if my Navajo was fitted with dual Garmin 435's plus a big moving map.

Every pilot/controller I have spoken to does not agree with the changes, we are the people, along with the passengers, who have to operate in this environment day in and day out. If one of us had input in the NAS it would not happen.

I wish I had a Citation that would wizzz me into class A airspace before I could say "Dick Head". Maybe Ill buy a few cheese shares and tell the cheese makers whats best for them. I bet they will embrace the changes.

And we are redirecting services based on risk, hahh! Firstly lets stop them using the radio, yes thats not risky, hhmmmm, now lets confuse them so they are all on different frequencies and QNH's, yehhh thats a good idea. Now lets get rid of that seperation between IFR and VFR in class D, yeh, thats a stupid rule anyway because nobody else does it that way. How about getting non-transponder equiped aircraft below 10000 not giving position broadcasts, great. Now where can we direct all these services we have taken away??? Lets think about that later, nobody will notice, send them those fancy training cd's with that funky music and those suckers won't no what hit em. Its 4 days before the 27th but thats plenty of time for them to bone up on it. Plus we have the Kings, its a sure thing!