[Peetwo]

Good story Thorny, perhaps we could start a de-identified archive of similar tales of good common sense & sensible safety risk mitigation...

That's why I say CAsA in all its glory do NOT write regs for safety, they write them to abrogate their responsibilities and Liability for anything, particularly safety, in fact they have become a positive impediment to safety.

      
And aided & abetted by our supposedly ICAO SARP (Annex 13 & 19) fully independent, State funded/administered AAI (air safety watchdog).
What might of been.. :

Just think for one minute if VH-YIR & VH-VYK (see continued ATSB investigation - AO-2013-100) prior to TOPD; or on calling inbound to Mildura had of been informed by UNICOM of developing FOG in the vicinity of the Airport??
We could have ended up with this scenario:



Instead we were very fortunate that it ended up like this:
 


And in response from our ATSB we get a more than 2 year, completely nugatory & typically politically corrected bureau investigation; where they do not appear to be in any great hurry to attempt to mitigate any of the significant safety issues highlighted by this very serious incident, let alone put out a final report...FFS!

Therefore Thorny I would argue that the current status quo of the ATSB, also represents another serious impediment to air safety risk mitigation..
 
MTF...P2