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So far there appears to be no LMH this week...

However there was a late comment from Sandy in reply to St Commode linking pilot attitude to serious incidents/accidents that I thought was worth regurgitating...

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Sandy Reith • 3 days ago

Mr. Carmody shows with his attitude and beliefs that he fails to appreciate that 90% of General Aviation’s (GA) bad attitude towards CASA is due the record of CASA. In the earlier phase of my career in GA, in particular before 1988, most of the industry granted a measure of respect to the regulator even though it was paternalistic, rule bound and inefficient. The regulatory framework was sorely in need of updating as was the administrative function of CASA (or predecessor by other names) but flying businesses could operate. In it’s circular letter, 3rd April 1989, written to operators it stated that it would rewrite the rules to provide “more business-like procedures....with view to reducing requirements, and their associated costs, to a minimum.”

In the one crucial area of GA, by wiping out most of Australia’s flying schools, by steadily increasing the paperwork burdens and more and more stringent, complex and impractical rules, CASA has failed spectacularly to honour it’s promise and has lost the trust of virtually the whole of the aviation industry.

The Government’s action to create an independent Commonwealth corporate body and task it with rewriting the rules, thirty-one years and still not finished, has been a colossal failure of governance that has cost Australia dearly.

The lines of government responsibility back to the electors was effectively discarded and needs to be re-established. In the meantime some interim measures must be ordered by government if it wishes to create GA jobs and services. Measures like independent instructors and maintenance engineers, self declared private pilot medicals, and the removal of the majority of the super expensive two year Aviation Security Identity Card (ASIC) requirements will have to be implemented quickly to prevent further debilitating GA industry decline.

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This prompted me (on behalf of K -  ) to reply with:

Sam Jackson  Sandy Reith • 8 minutes ago
Well said Sandy, spot on! Once again I refer you to the comment from Anderson (ref: http://www.australianflying... ) now over 5 years ago and then think - what's changed?:

Anderson • 5 years ago

CASA serves only the interests of CASA.

First and foremost – self-perpetuation.

Closely followed by reaching its claws into the pocket of every GA participant to extract the maximum bounty to fund said self-perpetuation.

It long ago became an unwieldy beast that shed even any sort of pretence it might actually serve the aviation community that funds it through the regular extortionate gouging, both direct and indirect.

CASA certainly does “make no apologies” – never has, never will (if past behaviour is any guide)…

Why then does it expect anyone with a brain and even the slightest modicum of historical fact into aviation in Australia to believe anything the self declared non-apologist has to say on any topic?

It has been proven time and time again to be untrustworthy on almost every level (secret collusion to influence ATSB investigations and doctor accident reports – anyone, anyone…?).

An organisation that simply lacks credibility within the real aviation community (ie, not the segment that benefits from the largesse, corporate favours and behind the scenes political shenanigans) cannot be taken at face value.

Bureaucratic regulation for all is the panacea for everything.

By now it is clear the regulatory behemoth seeks to destroy GA and everything associated with it, to not only bite the hand that feeds it but to chomp, mangle and swallow to the GA armpit and beyond.

Whatever any new purported “safety measures” might be from CASA for the community service flight sector, it will be a rocky transition to yet more rules that will do nothing to protect anyone.

The only new protection needed is for the selfless humanitarians in the community service flight sector (and GA generally) from the CASA bureaucrats.

The “safety measures” will come with some new fee or charge associated – nominal at first of course so as not to create too much resistance – and given some fashionable newspeak name to allay any unease, which will of course be
simultaneously denounced as “misplaced concerns” when the CASA PR machine swings into action.

We all know by now where “nominal” fees end up down the track – the next CASA cash cow.

Remember this all well folks, for what will be sold out of both sides of the CASA mouth in the months and years ahead will be nothing but a wolf in the guise of a sheep. Harmless at first, only to reveal a savage bite when it’s far too late to fully comprehend what really occurred.

Given the behaviour of CASA over the past years, one really does need to wonder whether they are a completely delusional bunch (given the continued expectation we will blindly accept anything they broadcast), but more importantly whether there is indeed a hidden agenda to completely rout GA – to destroy it so completely that nothing remains but empty crown land, devoid of the now GA aerodromes and ripe for redevelopment – which will all be a sheer coincidence of course.

This latest little trojan horse from CASA is undoubtedly but the next distraction to interfere where none is needed and to spew forth but more needless regulation. This time it will be aimed squarely at those who provide a tremendous
service and benefit to the community.

A type of actual service that CASA would not recognise if it were placed directly in front of its bloated waistline.

MTF...P2 


Ps Letter from Anderson can also be seen here: https://auntypru.com/letter-from-anderson/

The above now on Oz flying: http://disq.us/p/264enud 

Also an additional comment from Thunda: 

Thunda  Sandy Reith • 12 hours ago
Carmody has shown his true colors, when he trys to blame others for his own ignorance and arrogance.

The industry would be a lot better off without him (and others like him) holding up progress in the name of safety.

Forty years of ultralight flying without accident, including GA.

And justified criticism of
Cretins Against Sensible Aviation.

Plus Sandy on last week's LMH (I think -  ):

...Hopefully Andrew Anderson will assist the Minister with advice to implement sorely needed reforms. The problem being, as Hitch points out, will the Minister actually step out from behind his many layered barricades? One can’t help wondering if the whole advisory setup is not just one of those barricades. After all we pay something in the order of half a million dollars annually just to run the Board of CASA. Couldn’t we expect that that Board would have sufficient nous, commonsense and expertise to advise the Minister about reforms that everyone, except CASA, knows must occur if mainstream GA is to survive other than a rump plaything of the very rich.

In regard to the Senate inquiry of Senator Susan McDonald, and Sen. Rex Patrick who also has been unafraid to speak out against CASA, the difficulty is that, firstly, agreeing to it will put off any real reforms for at least two years and says there is no urgency whatever. Secondly, agreeing with the need for an inquiry strongly implies that the need for reform is not well defined, or indeed that we don’t know what is needed at all. 

Other than that, yes, it will be very easy to put in a submission, find your last one to the Aviation Safety Regulation Review in your computer files and resend. Think of it like this, our Government has caused us to spend, collectively, untold money and time, let alone taxpayer funds, on virtually the same issue but has done nothing to arrest the decline of General Aviation (GA).

It beggars belief that we will meekly submit once again to yet another inquiry when the last one was only four years ago. The whole of the GA industry should be up in arms, if there’s enough left of it that’s not well and truly cowed, hamstrung or simply tired of fighting to get out of the bureaucratic straight jacket.

Increase the RAAUS weight limit? Plain as the nose on one’s face that to build a two seat aircraft, one that has the capability that most owners want, the 600 kg all up weight limit cannot be sufficient. Do the math, take away the weight of engine, prop, fuel and two people and you are left with around 260 kg for an airframe. For our vast and windy continent it was never going to be satisfactory, the proof is that the great majority of the low weight category aircraft are hard up against the this artificial weight barrier.

Government should never have split GA in this manner, and it it should be reversed. Aircraft should be built to a purpose within a graduated system of certification under the one set of of rules. Simple rules should provide a seamless graduation also in training.

Its high time that our government takes action, and we should demand action, if it is serious about generating jobs and allowing it’s citizens the freedoms we are entitled to enjoy.

Finally Hitch today came out with this bit of scuttlebutt - WTF...

CASA Reshuffle to put GA in Stakeholder Group
15 December 2019
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An internal restructure at CASA will move the general, recreational and sport aviation functions from the Aviation Group to the Stakeholder Engagement Group.

Described as "more of a realignment", the new structure is expected to be put in place in the coming weeks and hands responsibility for non-passenger-carrying aviation to Executive Manager Rob Walker.

It is also thought that Stakeholder Engagement will also get responsibility for implementing CASR Part 149 - Approved Self-administering Aviation Organisations, and for the impacts of CASR Part 61 on the training industry.

Currently, the GA, Recreational and Sport team falls within the Aviation Group headed by Graeme Crawford and sits alongside regulatory functions such as airworthiness, engineering, navigation, remote systems and flight standards.

CASA first set up the GA, Recreational and Sport office in early 2018, replacing the largely ineffective GA Task Force (GATF).

Read more at http://www.australianflying.com.au/lates...CKpY359.99

Here we go again, standard Iron Ring modus operandi, when under the pump from the IOS and pesky bloody Senators do a deckchair shuffle - UFB! 

-> What the Hell is -
 
[non-passenger-carrying aviation] ????
 
P2 – “Here we go again, standard Iron Ring modus operandi, when under the pump from the IOS and pesky bloody Senators do a deckchair shuffle - UFB!

MTF...P2