Airservices Australia is examining suitable sites for deployment of a transportable radar to extend surveillance. The radar is one of a number of solutions to address shortcomings identified with the National Airspace System (NAS) in a review of the programme prompted by a number of air safety incidents in the reclassified airspace.
Airservices Australia acting chairman, Air Marshal Les Fisher says: "Airservices experts have undertaken a review which has identified a number of safety enhancements for immediate implementation."
The air traffic services provider says it already has a transportable radar, currently in Melbourne, and is looking at the most suitable site for it. In addition, new charts indicating air traffic control frequencies will be issued. The frequency information was removed from charts under the NAS Stage 2b changes introduced last November in a move that was opposed by many users of the system.
Additional options, which Airservices declines to comment on, will be put to industry this week and tested over the next few months.
Source: Flight International
