Air Traffic Control Issues

[Brissy1]

No trainee involved

Well that would certainly change things.

If ATSBs statement "training underway in the tower" and
Airservices statement "supervising controller immediately identified the potential for conflict and directed the controller to cancel the take-off clearance"
but there's no trainee, then yes sounds like a cover-up

 

[Melburnian1]

The episode isn't helping to instil confidence in airline passengers within, out of and into Australia.

A cover-up would be most unlikely to occur in a more easily visible surface mode such as rail over which the ATSB also has jurisdiction, so it ought not be tolerated in aviation or for that matter, marine.

 

[esseeeayeenn]

When did social media get added as a step in the aviation incident reporting process?

I must have missed that change to official procedures

It happened on Sunday.
It wasn't reported to the ATSB until Thursday lunchtime.

The Media is not the ATSB.

Wasn't reported to the ATSB until Thursday lunchtime.
According to the head of the ATSB.

 

[Quickstatus]

Wasn't reported to the ATSB until Thursday lunchtime.

The media is still not the ATSB.

 

[RooFlyer]

The media is still not the ATSB.

I believe @esseeeayeenn was talking about reporting to the ATSB, not the ‘media’, when querying why it wasn’t reported originally. It was others I think including yourself who just brought the media and social media up.

I find it impossible to understand or accept why this wasn’t reported on Sunday and has taken several days to emerge. Was it covered up?

It happened on Sunday.
It wasn't reported to the ATSB until Thursday lunchtime.

Wasn't reported to the ATSB until Thursday lunchtime.
According to the head of the ATSB.

The ASB announced to the media very soon after they discovered it, so it only ‘emerged’ then.

 

[Melburnian1]

This is from a long article online in 'The Australian' where the President of the applicable union ,Civil Air, denies there's a problem with (excessive) sick leave being taken in Sydney.

The article is (as usual) paywalled, but as a subscriber this was interesting:

"...It was understood there had been some resentment or resistance to international recruits, whose pay recognised their years of service overseas.

That had created a situation where a controller with nine years of experience overseas, for example, would be on a higher pay grade than their training manager or supervisor who may only have four or five years experience on the job.

Mr Nugent declined to comment on the policy but said there was still a lot of work to do in fixing the culture at Airservices..."

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This viewer comment (not by me) was the first to appear:

Let's hear how much sick leave is being taken. Wonder if it sort of balances out the overtime being claimed?