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Call for action on air safety reforms  

Steve Creedy

Aviation Editor
Sydney
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AVIATION groups seeking faster action on last year’s Forsyth report into aviation safety have urged the federal government and the air safety regulator to urgently embrace reform.  

The Australian Aviation Associations Forum, the peak body for aviation groups, urged Infrastructure Minister Warren Truss as well as the new Civil Aviation Safety Authority board and the authority’s boss Mark Skidmore to pursue “a fundamental improvement in aviation in Australia”.

A communique to be issued today at the Avalon International Airshow in Victoria says the future of aviation in Australia is starting to look promising but only if politicians, the infrastructure and department heads act now.

It called on Mr Truss to finalise a letter of intent to direct CASA to follow a new path of co-operation that would cut outmoded regulation.

“The forum noted that it was enthusiastic about reform noises coming from the minister and CASA, and was hopeful this would turn into a systematic approach to restructure and improve the culture of the regulator based on the government and industry endorsed (report),’’ it said.

The forum called for the setting up of key CASA-industry joint taskforces to address problems with implementation of flight crew licensing.
Separately, the industry welcomed the appointment of former Qantas chief pilot Chris Manning as a commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.

In other words miniscule & Skates get on with it...