Showing my age (!) sounds a bit like the old days of the "prima facie speed limit" in rural areas where there was a 50mph "prima facie" limit that you could exceed BUT if you incurred the wrath of the boys in blue then the onus was on you to prove that the speed at which you were travelling was safe under the circumstances.
 
Of course this was not overly popular with the constabulary as it tied up their resources in taking you to court. So in NSW they first introduced an absolute limit of 60mph within approx 100 miles of  Sydney (north to Newcastle, west to Bathurst, southt to Nowra) which of course then spread to the whole of the state.
 
So, pending a review/restructure/change of mind (couldn't happen could it???) I would predict it will only be a matter of time before it becomes compulsory one way or another.
 
All I can say (as a former employee of Dept of Transport) is that someone in the establishment must have a lot of time on their hands if they can expend their prodigious intellectual capacity on deciding to change "stations" to "traffic".
 

Allan Armistead
ph (02) 6249 6470, fax (02) 6249 6555, mobile 0413 013 911
PO Box 908, Dickson ACT 2602, Australia

"When once you have tasted flight, you will always walk with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you always will be."

Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Peter Stephenson
Sent: Wednesday, 7 December 2005 9:45
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] When (or what) is an aerodrome..... ?

At the first briefing for NAS 2C,  "Mandatory recommended" (oxymoron) was used and members of RAPAC around the country protested successfully.  Subsequent briefings "mandatory" was dropped but they are certainly NOT optional. 
You are expected to use these calls and if you do not, you will be expected to explain why not. FULL STOP.
 
PeterS
Peter C. Stephenson
RAPAC Qld. South Convenor
Gliding Qld. RAPAC (Qld.South)
07 3886 6889 Fax: 07 3886 6129
 
 
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