[Kharon]

Strange, but hardly surprising.

One of the little problems dealing with ‘Estimates’ material is the volume, which makes it easy to miss an interesting point; the other is that the answers to QoN take a while to be work-shopped and returned.  It means that the implications of a passage may not leap off the page at first read.  For example 

Mr Godley: Could I just clarify something, Senator? We did have one of our air traffic control investigators review the whole three hours. What happened was that after the repcon we got back to Airservices. They reviewed the tapes and said there was no loss of separation or loss of separation assurance. Our ATC investigator then reviewed the three hours. She determined that there was a potential loss of separation between two aircraft. But, due to the limitations of WebTrak, she could not be sure.

By any standard, that’s an innocuous enough statement, sounds fair and reasonable.  But there is some serious betting on whether Mr. Godley got a kicking once they were out of the room.  It is, in essence, a signed confession.  Firstly, it admits that ASA were to be allowed to investigate their own mess (a growing trend);and, that despite ‘public transport’ service investigation being spared no expense Dolan was only prepared to expend the minimum amount of time, money and effort on a half baked ‘examination’, to top off the trifecta Web Track, despite it’s admitted limitations, was used rather than real data from ASA, .

IMO the Dolan attitude and professed reluctance to dabble in ASA affairs is a smoke and mirrors ruse, to baffle the masses i.e. thee and me.  The piece below from Jeff Griffith clearly and unequivocally shows that Dolan has been very familiar with ‘airspace’ matters, for a long period of time.  As Commissioner, he has a duty to so involve ATSB investigators in the aberrations such LOS etc.  He has been forewarned that all is not as it should be, he has the prior expert knowledge and he runs the outfit that is charged with ensuring the maximum public safety standards possible.  So why has he not?, we wonder.  Perhaps the invisible Manning has taken over that portfolio, to allow the Commissioner time to ‘Blog’ and have lunch with the media. Manning came into the picture on an airspace ticket did he not?; some crap about the dangers of military airspace and how he was going to sort it all out.  Perhaps he’s busy with the ‘Blog’ as well.  

Anyway, FWIW, we think it is all passing strange, but not surprising.




Toot (slightly puzzled)-toot.