Safety Recommendation
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau recommends that
Airservices Australia increase the emphasis in its controller
training programs to ensure that all appropriate sources of weather
information, such as meteorological forecasts, controller
observations, radar information, and pilot reports are provided to
flight crews.
The following response dated 29 January 2003 was received from
Airservices Australia:
It is believed that current procedures already adequately cover the
issues identified in the recommendation, however a Review of
controller weather training will be undertaken by ATCC and upgrade
action taken as required.
The following response dated 13 April 2004 was received from
Airservices Australia:
This recommendation has been addressed in the refresher training
module referenced above (developed in response to R20020168).
