And - From the Funny Coincidence department.
“Ting” – the little chime on my phone spoke it’s sinister word. Bloody message, thought I, hope they don’t want a response. Being a self confessed I-Pad Philistine, I dread text messages – it takes me ages to ‘tap’ one out – one finger with much cussin’ and fussin’; usually ending with ‘bugger it – I’ll call ‘em'. Anyway, it was a strange number – unknown to me (or the phone). Flick – probably someone wanting to flog me sake oil or, insurance against snake oil poisoning. A minute later – ‘Ting’ same deal – Flick. A little while later ‘Ting’ by now I’m cranky. Someone is going to get an ear full. Before I offer my opinion on present worth and future value – I open the message – “See picture” was the only missive. Ok – so I looked. It was a photograph of a submission related to non other than the currently seriously hacked off Angel Flight bun fight. So I read it.
I am not going to reproduce the thing here – can’t even find out from whom it came. It was a slightly hysterical, uninformed ‘opinion’ of what, exactly was wrong with AF and how to best fix it all up – better. Yeah, yeah thought I – must be a legion of that ilk out there – entitled to an opinion and to voice it – no problem to me. Democracy at work – Bravo. I was about to close the thing and delete it (with malice aforethought) when I realized there was a second page, very official looking.
Proposed safety standard – Community service flights. (CD 1814OS).
Response 842062909. 2/15/2019.
Cursed curiosity bump got busy – so I managed to ‘scroll’ down to the gubbins.
“Last name (required)" quoth the document. There, neatly typed in was the name ‘Henwood’. An old Cornish name, something to do with wild birds and woodlands – but, I digress.
Not a lot of the ‘Henwood clan’ in Australia, even fewer in aviation circles; fewer again in the list of qualified aviators. There is however a Henwood employed by the ATSB. We must all hope that the ATSB Henwood (lead investigator) into the Mt Gambier AF accident; is not the writer of the submission. (If she did indeed provide a submission). For many reasons, as it should cause a minor furore; the Australian paints a picture – HERE. But if (Big IF) the unqualified ‘Henwood’ was ‘lead investigator’ and the writer of the ‘response’ I imagine the very least that would happen would be a call to strike out the cosy MoU between CASA and Hood’s version of the ATSB. CASA could wind up deep in the snake pit – if they have used this one submission – pre-emptively – in their haste to clip the wings of Angel Flight. At very least, someone could do a bit of digging and find out just exactly how aeronautically and investigatively qualified Henwood is, to be ‘Senior Investigator’. Not too much info on the ATSB site.
Can’t see it being ‘real’ myself – probably someone taking the Mickey; so, FWIW – that’s my tale for today. Believe it if you like.
Laura Henwood is an ATSB Recorder Specialist, working mostly in the rail and marine sectors.
Recorders may have been damaged in an accident or incident so special precautions are used to ensure they make it back to the laboratory without losing any data.
In the lab, the information is retrieved and provided to the investigating team. A range of inputs along with images and video can be used to build a picture of the circumstances leading up to an accident or incident.
https://www.facebook.com/atsbgovau/posts...373971852/
Toot – toot.
“Ting” – the little chime on my phone spoke it’s sinister word. Bloody message, thought I, hope they don’t want a response. Being a self confessed I-Pad Philistine, I dread text messages – it takes me ages to ‘tap’ one out – one finger with much cussin’ and fussin’; usually ending with ‘bugger it – I’ll call ‘em'. Anyway, it was a strange number – unknown to me (or the phone). Flick – probably someone wanting to flog me sake oil or, insurance against snake oil poisoning. A minute later – ‘Ting’ same deal – Flick. A little while later ‘Ting’ by now I’m cranky. Someone is going to get an ear full. Before I offer my opinion on present worth and future value – I open the message – “See picture” was the only missive. Ok – so I looked. It was a photograph of a submission related to non other than the currently seriously hacked off Angel Flight bun fight. So I read it.
I am not going to reproduce the thing here – can’t even find out from whom it came. It was a slightly hysterical, uninformed ‘opinion’ of what, exactly was wrong with AF and how to best fix it all up – better. Yeah, yeah thought I – must be a legion of that ilk out there – entitled to an opinion and to voice it – no problem to me. Democracy at work – Bravo. I was about to close the thing and delete it (with malice aforethought) when I realized there was a second page, very official looking.
Proposed safety standard – Community service flights. (CD 1814OS).
Response 842062909. 2/15/2019.
Cursed curiosity bump got busy – so I managed to ‘scroll’ down to the gubbins.
“Last name (required)" quoth the document. There, neatly typed in was the name ‘Henwood’. An old Cornish name, something to do with wild birds and woodlands – but, I digress.
Not a lot of the ‘Henwood clan’ in Australia, even fewer in aviation circles; fewer again in the list of qualified aviators. There is however a Henwood employed by the ATSB. We must all hope that the ATSB Henwood (lead investigator) into the Mt Gambier AF accident; is not the writer of the submission. (If she did indeed provide a submission). For many reasons, as it should cause a minor furore; the Australian paints a picture – HERE. But if (Big IF) the unqualified ‘Henwood’ was ‘lead investigator’ and the writer of the ‘response’ I imagine the very least that would happen would be a call to strike out the cosy MoU between CASA and Hood’s version of the ATSB. CASA could wind up deep in the snake pit – if they have used this one submission – pre-emptively – in their haste to clip the wings of Angel Flight. At very least, someone could do a bit of digging and find out just exactly how aeronautically and investigatively qualified Henwood is, to be ‘Senior Investigator’. Not too much info on the ATSB site.
Can’t see it being ‘real’ myself – probably someone taking the Mickey; so, FWIW – that’s my tale for today. Believe it if you like.
Laura Henwood is an ATSB Recorder Specialist, working mostly in the rail and marine sectors.
Recorders may have been damaged in an accident or incident so special precautions are used to ensure they make it back to the laboratory without losing any data.
In the lab, the information is retrieved and provided to the investigating team. A range of inputs along with images and video can be used to build a picture of the circumstances leading up to an accident or incident.
https://www.facebook.com/atsbgovau/posts...373971852/
Toot – toot.