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AMROBA November Newsletter

Via the AP emails:

November 2025 Newsletter

• Nothing Changes – Living in the Past
• Why Won’t CASA Recognise AQF Qualifications? (Other trades do)
• Maintenance Licences – Education Qualifications
• When Funds Get Tight

During decluttering pending our move to Qld I came across some interesting handwritten notes when I was chair of CASA’s RFP Office maintenance committee. These were responses from ANTA in 1995, regarding specific training courses for avionics, mechanical basic and advanced, aeroplane, normal and transport and helicopter based on underpinning the CAR 31 AME licences. Apparently, all ICAO/Convention documentation had been provided to ANTA.

This meeting was a result of the maintenance committee request for recognition, by CASA, of TAFE trade qualification as meeting the quals to obtain a licence. CASA was negotiating whether they could provide ICAO Doc. 7192 Chapter 3 licencing subjects for a LAME and a Chief Engineer as part of trade training. ANTA had agreed to create.
ANTA was abolished in 2007, but CASA had stopped talking with them and their successor, ASQA.

When you look at the subjects discussed at those mid 1990s meetings, they are basically the same subjects being discussed today except we have a different licencing and maintenance system to add to the confusion.

How can a government agency, after more than 20 years, still not have completed the regulatory reform program approved by successive governments in the 1990s?

Why has industry been left in this uncertain trading market with what is now very dated regulations.

Aviation international are continually changing and were continually updated by previous government departments but not by agencies now responsible.

Both FARs and EASRs have had many changes that have left Australia operating in a unique domestic market.
Why is general aviation, especially engineering business, flight training, etc. etc. booming in the US?
Is it because the FAA has modernised their regulatory system that are harmonious with other USA laws and regulations.

We could be creating jobs if we had finite pathways through Australia’s legislative system.

Ken Cannane
Executive Director
AMROBA
Phone: (02) 97592715
Mobile: 0408029329
www.amroba.org.au
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