Skip, skip, skip to my lou.
Wiki – “Skip to My Lou" is a simple game of stealing partners (or swapping partners as in square dancing). It begins with any number of couples skipping hand in hand around in a ring. A lone boy in the centre of the moving circle of couples sings, "Lost my partner, what'll I do?
Perhaps this is the ministers new theme song (that, or Jail House Rock). All the agencies skipping about him; he without a partner to dance with or even a leg to stand on. Not his fault of course; but ultimately, in public perception at least it will be. No matter how much you wriggle and dance etc. You see being totally ignorant, he was a prime candidate for ‘capture’. Without question he has accepted, as gospel, the words of his aviation advisor. Too late now to say I was led astray – for he is now so far beyond ‘astray’ that it will take every bit of influence the Nats can muster to save him from shame and ridicule.
It is not too complex a scenario; on the surface. But below that thin layer of surface ice, there is a deep, murky pit waiting to swallow the unwary. No one has control of the beasts which lurk beneath that surface. They are beyond ministerial or indeed government control and are voracious. A snack of ministerial size will only be shared by the biggest and most dangerous beasts below the icy surface; minister for breakfast – yummy.
You see the SOAR debacle is about to implode. The minister, whether willing participant or simply an actor saying it’s lines, is but a cats paw for those who control matters aeronautical. Without prejudice; this SOAR episode is not only a matter for the Royal Commission, but one for the AFP. It gooses CASA in a most robust fashion, ropes the ATSB in as willing accomplices; gives Angel Flight and Gen Buckley’s legal advice a rock solid platform from which to shout “foul” long, loud and backed up to the hilt. It places RA OZ is a ‘difficult’ position – for they must, by association be tainted. Membership matters raise questions; particularly ‘temporary’ training matters raise even more questions. Aircraft suitability for purpose is a genuine problem alongside of training pilot qualification. All this even before the nitty-gritty is exposed.
For exposed, in all it’s villainy, it will be. That you can take to the bank. For far too many years now CASA has been a law unto itself; the results of that uncontained, unmodulated, arrogant thinking are being shown in accident and incident reports. Well, those that get published that is. The problem lays not in what is known – but in what is not known. i.e. Pilots who don’t know what they don’t know. Honest kids led to believe they are being given top line training for example. RA Oz recorded 31 (thirty one) events in the last 12 months (1 Dec 2019 to today) of these many have had the potential to be serious; indeed many were. All swept under the carpet; as CASA and ATSB have engineered a situation where ‘they’ are not responsible. Not only that, they actively promote the division between ‘established’ GA training and the RA Oz version.
The damage done to the spirit and intent of ‘flight training’ will be clearly seen in future accidents. Paperwork does not a pilot make, despite protestations of being ‘legal’ and compliant’ (tick-a-box). Even now, we see ‘incidents’ which can be backtracked to ‘tick-a-box training methods. We even see the degradation of standards being supported in what the ATSB describe as ‘reports’ and ‘recommendations’ of airline incidents no less. What they did to Angel Flight being (IMO) the pinnacle of gross manipulation.
Fair warning minister – there is no way that this happy horse-pooh is going to become the new ‘norm’. Not if it’s the last thing I and my crew do. So grab your tin hat, muster up all the mates you have in the Nats; this is only the beginning. Will we rock you? – Bet on it. We don’t live on Candy Mountain – don’t want to hit it either.
Selah.
Wiki – “Skip to My Lou" is a simple game of stealing partners (or swapping partners as in square dancing). It begins with any number of couples skipping hand in hand around in a ring. A lone boy in the centre of the moving circle of couples sings, "Lost my partner, what'll I do?
Perhaps this is the ministers new theme song (that, or Jail House Rock). All the agencies skipping about him; he without a partner to dance with or even a leg to stand on. Not his fault of course; but ultimately, in public perception at least it will be. No matter how much you wriggle and dance etc. You see being totally ignorant, he was a prime candidate for ‘capture’. Without question he has accepted, as gospel, the words of his aviation advisor. Too late now to say I was led astray – for he is now so far beyond ‘astray’ that it will take every bit of influence the Nats can muster to save him from shame and ridicule.
It is not too complex a scenario; on the surface. But below that thin layer of surface ice, there is a deep, murky pit waiting to swallow the unwary. No one has control of the beasts which lurk beneath that surface. They are beyond ministerial or indeed government control and are voracious. A snack of ministerial size will only be shared by the biggest and most dangerous beasts below the icy surface; minister for breakfast – yummy.
You see the SOAR debacle is about to implode. The minister, whether willing participant or simply an actor saying it’s lines, is but a cats paw for those who control matters aeronautical. Without prejudice; this SOAR episode is not only a matter for the Royal Commission, but one for the AFP. It gooses CASA in a most robust fashion, ropes the ATSB in as willing accomplices; gives Angel Flight and Gen Buckley’s legal advice a rock solid platform from which to shout “foul” long, loud and backed up to the hilt. It places RA OZ is a ‘difficult’ position – for they must, by association be tainted. Membership matters raise questions; particularly ‘temporary’ training matters raise even more questions. Aircraft suitability for purpose is a genuine problem alongside of training pilot qualification. All this even before the nitty-gritty is exposed.
For exposed, in all it’s villainy, it will be. That you can take to the bank. For far too many years now CASA has been a law unto itself; the results of that uncontained, unmodulated, arrogant thinking are being shown in accident and incident reports. Well, those that get published that is. The problem lays not in what is known – but in what is not known. i.e. Pilots who don’t know what they don’t know. Honest kids led to believe they are being given top line training for example. RA Oz recorded 31 (thirty one) events in the last 12 months (1 Dec 2019 to today) of these many have had the potential to be serious; indeed many were. All swept under the carpet; as CASA and ATSB have engineered a situation where ‘they’ are not responsible. Not only that, they actively promote the division between ‘established’ GA training and the RA Oz version.
The damage done to the spirit and intent of ‘flight training’ will be clearly seen in future accidents. Paperwork does not a pilot make, despite protestations of being ‘legal’ and compliant’ (tick-a-box). Even now, we see ‘incidents’ which can be backtracked to ‘tick-a-box training methods. We even see the degradation of standards being supported in what the ATSB describe as ‘reports’ and ‘recommendations’ of airline incidents no less. What they did to Angel Flight being (IMO) the pinnacle of gross manipulation.
Fair warning minister – there is no way that this happy horse-pooh is going to become the new ‘norm’. Not if it’s the last thing I and my crew do. So grab your tin hat, muster up all the mates you have in the Nats; this is only the beginning. Will we rock you? – Bet on it. We don’t live on Candy Mountain – don’t want to hit it either.
Selah.