At 07:50 PM 1/10/04 +1000, you wrote:
>At 05:23 PM 1/10/2004 +0930, you wrote:
>>I received a flyer from CASA advising of a range of seminars, one of which
>>is National Airspace.
>>
>>We should flock to this to make our point about the roll back.
>>The following link has info about the seminars and registering:
>>http://www.casa.gov.au/hotopics/seminars/topics/nas.htm
>>--- Leigh Bunting
>
>Leigh
>
>Please note that 1. All the other seminars except Adelaide have already
>been held; and more importantly
> 2. CASA has nothing whatever to do with the management of
>airspace, which is done by Airservices. Whilst CASA's education team are
>presenting a range of topics, and they will teach you how to interpret the
>maps and charts, and perhaps suggest recommended ways of using the airspace
>arrangements, neither the Safety Promotion Section nor any other area of
>CASA has any influence over the proposed "roll back" announced by
>Airservices on 25 August (incidentally within hours of the Government going
>into caretaker mode, so the Minister had only a tiny window of time to
>comment).
>
>By all means make your point, but don't be surprised when the people
>conducting the meeting say "Not our problem, sport!"
>
>Wombat
Well now that is interesting. The last material I received as a PPL said
there would be seminars and we would be notified. I haven't been. I didn't
realise that they had already been held. I wonder how many others missed out?
Sounds like a good reason to delay or cancel the rollback. After all
education is SO important at least according to the NAS opponents.
Mike
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