by K_P9 | Jun 30, 2015 | Accidents and Inquiry, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
It is a twelve month to the day that the esteemed David Forsyth and the ‘team’ presented their 37 recommendations to DPM Truss. Those of PAIN monitoring the changes and the effects of change have had a pretty easy time of it – in fact nothing has...
by K_P9 | Jun 29, 2015 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
Gee whiz; this Part 61 has kicked up some dust, I can’t find anyone who is ‘happy’. It’s not too bad for the big operators, it will put their costs up a half point, maybe a full point, but the difficulties can be ironed out or exempted out of play. For example, the...
by K_P9 | Jun 27, 2015 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
As you may know, the PAIN associates use an email chain system to discreetly express a view point or to examine a subject. The size and volume of a ‘chain’ varies, depending on the topic, not too many ‘engineers’ get involved with ‘in-flight’ topics and so on, but...
by K_P9 | Jun 25, 2015 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
You know, when P2 (Guru) kicked off this thread, I had expectations of filling up pages with good news, of the best kind; I did. Which should be a lesson of some sort about expecting that things would improve. After the Senate and Pel-Air, followed by a Ministerial...
by K_P9 | Jun 25, 2015 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
Just when you think you’ve seen it all. I believe we can dismiss any notion that Skidmore actually wrote this insulting, demeaning little missive. For starters he’s not bright enough. No, this has the touch of a malign, evil, twisted intelligence, protected and...
by K_P9 | Jun 24, 2015 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
Great picture – those smiles are genuine; the inestimable Fawcett who breathes hope into a depressed Australian aviation scene, despite the best efforts of CASA to regulate it out of existence; the ATSB who cannot seem to provide an accident report with any meaning;...