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Increased Passenger Safety at Rural & Regional Airports

I urge the Minister to expedite the recommendations of the ATSB in its December 2006 report Perceived Pilot Workload and Perceived Safety of RNAV (GNSS) Approaches aimed at improving the safety of GPS (RNAV - GNSS) approaches to land.

I also urge the rapid implementation of vertical guidance augmentation for GPS approaches to make air travel safer at regional and remote airports.

Hundreds of GPS guided approaches are conducted by pilots in Australia every day often in non-visual and poor weather conditions.

Although pilots are trained to conduct these approaches safely, government bodies must act to remove the underlying dangers and make air travel for Australians in regional and remote locations as safe as for passengers in jet aircraft at capital city airports.

Yours faithfully,