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I know the Ferryman detests this comic; but IMO it perfectly highlights Ms Staib's (+ her exec backstaibbing numpties) view of what it is she is supposed to be overseeing for a measly 600k per annum...FCOL



Not sure about anything else in the Angus rant, but IMO this is what most people will remember..   

"..Sir Angus has refused to do so, saying “We want our firefighters ready to respond … not handling the radio”..."

Overnight from that man again...

Hit for $90k, flight veteran says bosses have heads in clouds  

• by: EAN HIGGINS
  
• From: The Australian
  
• June 27, 2015 12:00AM
  

Reporter
Sydney




Ray Clamback at Bankstown airport. ‘It’s ridiculous ... to say this is going to increase air safety in this country,’ he says. Picture: Renee Nowytarger Source: News Corp Australia

After 55 years of flying, and two separate near-death experiences in which he was plucked from the Pacific Ocean when he had to ditch after engine failure, Ray Clamback knows a thing or two about navigation, weather and safety.  

And Mr Clamback, who runs a flying school at Sydney’s Bankstown airport, knows the expensive GPS navigation system being introduced under the championship of Airservices Australia chairman Angus Houston won’t make an iota of difference.

“It’s ridiculous for Houston — he’s not a bad fellow — to say this is going to increase air safety in this country. It’s not,” Mr Clamback told The Weekend Australian.

What Mr Clamback also knows is that the complex avionics the air regulators are forcing him to ­install to comply with the new system, known as Automatic Dependent Surveillance — Broadcast, are costing him a lot of money.

He has bought one ADS-B unit for $16,800 and has to equip seven single-engine and one twin-­engine training aircraft with them.
Under ADS-B, sophisticated satellite GPS systems determine the position, direction, speed and altitude of aircraft, with that information relayed in real time to air traffic controllers via ground stations.

The problem, however, is that, generally, below 8500 feet, nat­ional air traffic controllers do not direct aircraft anyway, and most private and recreational aircraft flying under visual flight rules at those levels are not require to ­install ADS-B.

ADS-B is of no practical use to Mr Clamback since his unpressurised aircraft fly at lower levels.

“Why a small school like ourselves is up for $90,000, when we don’t gain anything, is ridiculous,” Mr Clamback said.

One thing that would make flying safer for his instructors and students would be if ground staff at the school, during the hours when the Bankstown control tower is closed, went on the Unicom radio to advise pilots of local weather and air traffic.

Air regulations prohibit him and his staff from doing so: the rules state that only individuals who have held air traffic controller ­licences within the past 10 years are allowed to provide such information.

“For 55 years I have flown just about everywhere in the world ­except China, and they are telling me I’m not allowed to tell a person coming in here what the weather is like,” Mr Clamback said.

One thing Sir Angus could do, Mr Clamback said, to improve air safety would be to have the firefighters employed by Airservices at airports such as Ballina in NSW, where there is no control tower, trained to operate the Unicom to inform pilots of traffic and weather, as they do in the US.

Sir Angus has refused to do so, saying “We want our firefighters ready to respond … not handling the radio”. psss..see what I mean..

Head in clouds??



Nah..more like..



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MTF...P2