The Australian system is safe. If it ain broke, why try to fix it?
There is no question that Australia’s air safety record is one that the entire aviation industry can be proud of. However, it would clearly be counter productive to use a tragic accident as the sole catalyst for change. The system doesn’t need to be ‘broken’ for effective reform to take place. The NAS project is about making a good system safer, by concentrating resources more heavily on those areas that pose the greatest level of risk, eg, around busy airports and corridors with the highest traffic density.
