Following is a letter I sent to the Minister on 19 April 2006 in relation to the documentation that is being used by Airservices Australia to promote ADS-B.  The letter is self-explanatory.

The Hon Warren Truss MP

Minister for Transport and Regional Services

Parliament House

Canberra ACT 2600

By fax: 02 6273 4126

 

Dear Minister

 

I notice that in the five months since I wrote my Unsafe Skies report, you have made no public comment in relation to my claim that the Airservices safety case used to reverse NAS 2b is fraudulent. 

 

This is indeed a great pity as it has given a strong message to the people at Airservices and CASA that this type of behaviour can continue. 

 

For example, I have recently studied the documentation which is being used to support the introduction of ADS-B.  It is quite clearly similarly fraudulent.  As an example, one document looks at the cost of ADS-B out, but then links in the advantages of ADS-B in – which has not been costed. 

 

Another paper claims that ADS-B will allow a service to be given at places like Broome and Ayers Rock which is similar to the service that is provided at the present time at Sydney.  This is clearly wrong as Sydney has both primary and secondary radar, and a control tower.

 

Because you are allowing the organisations for which you are responsible to go down this dishonest path of making up information that supports the direction they wish to go in, you are probably inadvertently supporting decisions which may most likely be wrong in the end.

 

I remind you of the tens of millions of dollars that were spent in Australia on the microwave landing system.  Just as with ADS-B, we were going to be leaders in the world.  Every dollar was wasted because the people involved were not astute enough to ask advice and realise they were heading in the wrong direction.

 

Yours faithfully

 

Dick Smith