Impossible to judge an individual accident without intimate knowledge, and this degree of knowledge is often lost in the accident itself.
Having operated my own charter and scheduled services in general aviation aircraft I know we can improve the total environment for the employment of junior or inexperienced pilots, not to mention all the other pilots.
The broad terms, for a start, the regulatory environment must change. Priority would be to change the ‘them and us’ and big stick approach. The current regulatory regime induces fear of flight and retribution from CASA, armed as it is, inappropriately, with a great raft of criminal sanctions and ease of prosecution by the strict liability provision. The fear of flight and regulator sanction is often, to some degree, instilled in the earliest training phase. This mitigates against clear and rational decision making in flight. There’s nothing wrong about a healthy respect for what is a sometimes difficult and potentially dangerous pursuit, but that respect should not be exaggerated or exacerbated into irrational fear by a wrong psychological approach.
CASA should drop it’s incessant mantra of ‘safety’ and delete that word from it’s title. Paradoxically this would be a first step in creating a safer flying environment in Australia.
P7 (rude insertion) - Amen to that Sandy; airline pilots get lots and lots of mentoring. A new start in the bush gets - ??
Having operated my own charter and scheduled services in general aviation aircraft I know we can improve the total environment for the employment of junior or inexperienced pilots, not to mention all the other pilots.
The broad terms, for a start, the regulatory environment must change. Priority would be to change the ‘them and us’ and big stick approach. The current regulatory regime induces fear of flight and retribution from CASA, armed as it is, inappropriately, with a great raft of criminal sanctions and ease of prosecution by the strict liability provision. The fear of flight and regulator sanction is often, to some degree, instilled in the earliest training phase. This mitigates against clear and rational decision making in flight. There’s nothing wrong about a healthy respect for what is a sometimes difficult and potentially dangerous pursuit, but that respect should not be exaggerated or exacerbated into irrational fear by a wrong psychological approach.
CASA should drop it’s incessant mantra of ‘safety’ and delete that word from it’s title. Paradoxically this would be a first step in creating a safer flying environment in Australia.
P7 (rude insertion) - Amen to that Sandy; airline pilots get lots and lots of mentoring. A new start in the bush gets - ??