Once you plough your way through the above post, you realise two things – (i) P2 is a crafty bugger and wants a puzzle solved (ii) there is a Choc frog in it; it’s a real head scratcher.
P2 has nearly teased all the dots out; it’s fun to watch him do this, like a dog with two rabbit holes to watch and three rabbits down there. “K” will probably have a melt down, but we may yet need to acknowledge that JMac – ex DAS – actually tried to do something ‘right’ and ‘good’. Depends how you want to do the dots and how deep you perceive the systemic corruption within ASA to be; they are fair options and valid points of view.
Buts lets cherry pick bits off the McComic interview:-
In his first interview since ¬leaving the aviation watchdog, Mr McCormick said Airservices seemed reluctant to implement measures that involved its air ¬traffic controllers directing aircraft over a wider range of airspace where reliable radar was available. “Their objections were not based on safety; to my belief, they were internal Airservices ¬issues,” Mr McCormick said.
Hint 1: JMac consistently supported radar coverage to ‘as low as possible’ within the reasonable limitations of radar coverage. Now Hobart and TASWAM still, to this day begs many unanswered questions. There is suspicion that ASA were fully funded to purchase the whole shooting match – masts and all, which would have given JMac the coverage he thought should be made ‘normal’, ASA ‘bought’ equipment with the capability, the manufacturer acknowledges that is, absolutely, what they sold; but either the money or the will to install the ground stations was not available. Many believe that’s just a wee bit too coincidental and are curious as to where the funding was actually allocated, most certainly it did not go to TASWAM.
“I said that this was unacceptable. For various reasons, there was a bit of objection,” Mr McCormick said, referring to Airservices.
He said Airservices did not move fast to implement the CASA directive to bring Avalon under controlled airspace. “It took them a year. They hybrided their way towards it,” Mr McCormick said.
So puzzle part one: why did terry Farq-u-Hardson sign off in 2014, not JMac? Probably a good bet that JMac flatly refused to sign off on a system which essentially made his previous objections nugatory “Oh well, when they’ve all got ADS-B we won’t need to fulfil out Tasmanian promise and the saved money may be kept in the general revenue slush fund – or wherever the ASA keep their ‘savings’.
As dear old John would say – “it’s passing strange”; all of it, but it does, in a round about way explain the ‘urgent’ need and uncompromising stance for ADSB, if ASA have spent or ‘saved’ the pennies allocated to provide low level coverage, where possible, then did not;-
- and now must keep running ahead to cover a shortfall – not in pennies, but in the ability to provide the service the public payed for.
Well, that’s my Sunday CF bid; thing is, the more you wonder about that last QoN, the curiouser and curiouser it all gets. Nice one P2, now I shall have ale to help my poor old wooden head.
P2 has nearly teased all the dots out; it’s fun to watch him do this, like a dog with two rabbit holes to watch and three rabbits down there. “K” will probably have a melt down, but we may yet need to acknowledge that JMac – ex DAS – actually tried to do something ‘right’ and ‘good’. Depends how you want to do the dots and how deep you perceive the systemic corruption within ASA to be; they are fair options and valid points of view.
Buts lets cherry pick bits off the McComic interview:-
In his first interview since ¬leaving the aviation watchdog, Mr McCormick said Airservices seemed reluctant to implement measures that involved its air ¬traffic controllers directing aircraft over a wider range of airspace where reliable radar was available. “Their objections were not based on safety; to my belief, they were internal Airservices ¬issues,” Mr McCormick said.
Hint 1: JMac consistently supported radar coverage to ‘as low as possible’ within the reasonable limitations of radar coverage. Now Hobart and TASWAM still, to this day begs many unanswered questions. There is suspicion that ASA were fully funded to purchase the whole shooting match – masts and all, which would have given JMac the coverage he thought should be made ‘normal’, ASA ‘bought’ equipment with the capability, the manufacturer acknowledges that is, absolutely, what they sold; but either the money or the will to install the ground stations was not available. Many believe that’s just a wee bit too coincidental and are curious as to where the funding was actually allocated, most certainly it did not go to TASWAM.
Quote:“said that he met opposition each time he moved to have Airservices, the government-owned body that runs the nation’s air traffic control and navigation system, extend controlled airspace."
Quote:At Avalon, not far from Melbourne’s Tullamarine airport, the situation was absurd, Mr McCormick said, because the radar coverage of the area was so good “you could see aircraft on the ground” but it was not being used for air traffic control down to the runway.
“I said that this was unacceptable. For various reasons, there was a bit of objection,” Mr McCormick said, referring to Airservices.
He said Airservices did not move fast to implement the CASA directive to bring Avalon under controlled airspace. “It took them a year. They hybrided their way towards it,” Mr McCormick said.
So puzzle part one: why did terry Farq-u-Hardson sign off in 2014, not JMac? Probably a good bet that JMac flatly refused to sign off on a system which essentially made his previous objections nugatory “Oh well, when they’ve all got ADS-B we won’t need to fulfil out Tasmanian promise and the saved money may be kept in the general revenue slush fund – or wherever the ASA keep their ‘savings’.
As dear old John would say – “it’s passing strange”; all of it, but it does, in a round about way explain the ‘urgent’ need and uncompromising stance for ADSB, if ASA have spent or ‘saved’ the pennies allocated to provide low level coverage, where possible, then did not;-
Quote:“[Their] objections were not based on safety; to my belief, they were internal Airservices ¬issues,'
- and now must keep running ahead to cover a shortfall – not in pennies, but in the ability to provide the service the public payed for.
Well, that’s my Sunday CF bid; thing is, the more you wonder about that last QoN, the curiouser and curiouser it all gets. Nice one P2, now I shall have ale to help my poor old wooden head.