For and on behalf of Sandy, via the AP email chains.
Post of the month - Bravo Sandy.
Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s (CASA) fatuously styled “Director of Air Safety,” Shane Carmody, has a briefing today making comment towards a move to increase the All Up Weight (AUW) of Recreational Aircraft from 600 kg to 760kg, another arbitrary number.
Quote:- “A common comment made in the feedback was the proposal would benefit the aviation community as it would stimulate activity in the private recreational aviation sector across the board. Feedback indicated the change would result in improved safety as a result of access to aircraft with greater structural integrity, as well as the ability to carry to greater useful loads and additional fuel. It would likely change the perception of recreational private flying and attract new and former pilots into the sector, creating greater opportunities in training and maintenance.“
Shane Carmody seems favourably disposed, though somewhat coyly put, towards a weight increase for the Recreational Aviation Australia (RAAus) category. RAAus being a Commonwealth sponsored private monopoly company administering this section of General Aviation (GA). The weight increase is welcome but points to the colossal policy failure by government through it’s regulator CASA.
It seems that the penny has dropped, after about twenty five years, about the wrong weight limit. The wrong split of GA, and the rules twisted to induce thousands of pilots into less capable aircraft, is the root cause of this unhealthy situation. And so the pronouncement of the peak aviation safety body of government after all this time. Why do we pay these people when they cannot see or act in the National interest to correct operational and safety issues that have been so obvious for so long? Where have our Aviation Ministers and their advisors been all these years? Heads in the sand?
CASA supports the wrongful division of our industry to the detriment of Australia’s aviation industry, it cannot admit to a wrong structure or systemic failure because it is reactionary and has no appetite or incentive to change.
The wholly unnecessary and unjust revocation of Glen Buckley’s flying school umbrella model, a model developed to overcome the extraordinary and super expensive new CASA flying school regulations (the infamous Part 61), will now be seen with, if possible, even more cynicism. Why? Simply because RAAus effectively uses the same model with CASA’s tacit approval and with the weight increase will undoubtedly lead to most pilots having to learn to fly via the RAAus system.
Too bad for Australia (no wonder we are now importing pilots) that we cannot have the rational rules of the USA where instructors can teach without the huge fees, expenses and bureaucratic delaying tactics of CASA.
Make the change, not difficult, and we would see a resurgence in training, maintenance and other jobs and services growing in General Aviation.
Sandy Reith
Post of the month - Bravo Sandy.
Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s (CASA) fatuously styled “Director of Air Safety,” Shane Carmody, has a briefing today making comment towards a move to increase the All Up Weight (AUW) of Recreational Aircraft from 600 kg to 760kg, another arbitrary number.
Quote:- “A common comment made in the feedback was the proposal would benefit the aviation community as it would stimulate activity in the private recreational aviation sector across the board. Feedback indicated the change would result in improved safety as a result of access to aircraft with greater structural integrity, as well as the ability to carry to greater useful loads and additional fuel. It would likely change the perception of recreational private flying and attract new and former pilots into the sector, creating greater opportunities in training and maintenance.“
Shane Carmody seems favourably disposed, though somewhat coyly put, towards a weight increase for the Recreational Aviation Australia (RAAus) category. RAAus being a Commonwealth sponsored private monopoly company administering this section of General Aviation (GA). The weight increase is welcome but points to the colossal policy failure by government through it’s regulator CASA.
It seems that the penny has dropped, after about twenty five years, about the wrong weight limit. The wrong split of GA, and the rules twisted to induce thousands of pilots into less capable aircraft, is the root cause of this unhealthy situation. And so the pronouncement of the peak aviation safety body of government after all this time. Why do we pay these people when they cannot see or act in the National interest to correct operational and safety issues that have been so obvious for so long? Where have our Aviation Ministers and their advisors been all these years? Heads in the sand?
CASA supports the wrongful division of our industry to the detriment of Australia’s aviation industry, it cannot admit to a wrong structure or systemic failure because it is reactionary and has no appetite or incentive to change.
The wholly unnecessary and unjust revocation of Glen Buckley’s flying school umbrella model, a model developed to overcome the extraordinary and super expensive new CASA flying school regulations (the infamous Part 61), will now be seen with, if possible, even more cynicism. Why? Simply because RAAus effectively uses the same model with CASA’s tacit approval and with the weight increase will undoubtedly lead to most pilots having to learn to fly via the RAAus system.
Too bad for Australia (no wonder we are now importing pilots) that we cannot have the rational rules of the USA where instructors can teach without the huge fees, expenses and bureaucratic delaying tactics of CASA.
Make the change, not difficult, and we would see a resurgence in training, maintenance and other jobs and services growing in General Aviation.
Sandy Reith