Qantas delays flights in Perth

[nlagalle]

Terminal Navigation services and Terminal Radar services for Melbourne and Canberra are provided from the Melbourne facility with the Sydney, Adelaide and Perth terminal units managed from Melbourne. There are 152 terminal area controllers.


If you go to perth airport you will see a tower, it has controllers in it, just like the building next to it. They provide tower and terminal services for Perth. They are not in Melbourne but Perth is in the Melbourne FIR. The managers for the FIR are in Melbourne. It is managed in Mlebourne but not run from Melbourne. Sydney and Adelaide do the same thing. Only melbourne and Canberra approach/departures are handled from Melbourne centre, of course there is a tower in Canberra, how else would they see the runway?

Correct.. The tower at Perth handles movements around the airport, not the airspace outside it. Same at Jandakot etc. They don't handle airspace outside the airport zone. When an aircraft takes off, it is handed over to departures which is controlled by Melbourne. They are seperate. closing the perth tower only affects the airport. The airspace is handled by Melbourne.

 

[Expon]

I really want you to ask departures where they are next time you talk to them. I can assure you they are not in Mlebourne.

 

[Expon]

I think this thread is no longer on topic and the content is neither constructive nor important. Can it be closed?

 

[nlagalle]

I really want you to ask departures where they are next time you talk to them. I can assure you they are not in Mlebourne.

I stand corrected that they are in Perth. However Perth departures could be operated from Melbourne (as is done for Canberra), as the services are derived from there (and they are all radar based).

If the tower has closed, aircraft can operate based on the information already said.

And as a passenger you'd have no idea what airspace or procedures are operating unless you had access to NOTAMS.