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CASA Chair Tony Mathews slurps from the Koolaid fountain - 

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Carmody to leave CASA at Year End
8 July 2020
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Civil Aviation Safety Authority CEO and Director of Aviation Safety (DAS) Shane Carmody will leave the regulator at the end of 2020.

CASA Chairman Tony Mathews confirmed today that Carmody would retire four years after he was appointed to the role.

"The Board is very pleased with what Mr Carmody has achieved during his time as CEO/DAS, particularly the resolution of CASA’s long standing Regulatory Reform Program and much improved stakeholder confidence in CASA as a safety regulator," Mathews said.

"This Board is confident that CASA is on a firm footing for the future.

"To allow time for a replacement to be found, Mr Carmody will remain as CEO/DAS until the end of the year."

Carmody was appointed to the role as Acting DAS in October 2016 after the sudden departure of Mark Skidmore. He was confirmed in the role permanently in June the following year. Carmody is a career public servant  and has had a long career in public service including in defence security intelligence, veterans affairs and a three-year stint as CASA Deputy DAS to Bruce Byron in 2006-9.

During his time as DAS, Carmody oversaw the end of the epic aviation safety regulation reform program, the implementation of the Basic Class 2 medical and the establishment of the Aviation Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP).

So finally the St Commode will be departing the fix, I do wonder if Tony Mathews has been sipping a little too much from the Can'tberra Koolaid fountain??

"The Board is very pleased with what Mr Carmody has achieved during his time as CEO/DAS, particularly the resolution of CASA’s long standing Regulatory Reform Program and much improved stakeholder confidence in CASA as a safety regulator,"


UDB! 

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Sandy Reith • 2 hours ago

CASA Board Chair Tony Mathews has a vastly different view about the state of General Aviation (GA) industry administration and the regulatory performance of CASA compared to the great majority of GA industry personnel.

Changing personalities in the position of the (fatuously titled) ‘Director of Air Safety,’ or for that matter Board membership, has done nothing to alter the devastating attack on GA by the regulator. The results are there for all to see and one or two faltering steps forward amount to nothing compared to two hundred backward steps. GA has lost thousands of jobs and hundreds of flying schools and charter operators these last thirty two years of the CASA‘s counterproductive, excessive and hugely expensive regulatory avalanche.

A perfect example would be the quoted medical certification Basic Class 2 ‘reform.’ The reform you are having when you are not having one, a classic Clayton’s reform. On the one hand the RAAus (low weight category) private pilot medical certification has satisfactorily operated on a self declared car driver standard. The same pilot, who might fly the exact same aircraft but with CASA registration, instead of RAAus registration, has to make it to a standard of ‘unconditional’ commercial truck or bus driver standard. In other words the pilot may drive a bus on a conditional commercial driver licence but not fly a VH registered aircraft.

In typical fashion CASA has created the illusion of tackling reform sufficiently to maintain it’s high salary structure and importance by employing the ‘safety’ mantra and it’s Clayton’s reform sideshow. How long will it take before Parliament wakes up to this unsustainable trajectory?

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Lead Balloon , 8th Jul 2020 11:24
Carmody “walks the plank”?

I think you mean “transitions to the comfort of a six-figure taxpayer-funded pension, supplemented by the occasional inquiry appointment.“

The only important question is: Who is Mick from the Wagga office going to appoint as Carmody’s replacement?

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Torres , 8th Jul 2020 20:52

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I have confidence that whoever he chooses, it will be the right decision. I have no doubt some people will disagree with me and that is fine but I actually have a lot of respect for Michael McCormack and think he is going to do a lot of good for the aviation industry in the long run!

Love the comedian!  

McCormack is so good he makes Anderson look smart! 

Now, back to the real world..........

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poteroo , 9th Jul 2020 01:25
Did I really read 'the resolution of the longstanding regulatory reform program' ??

Can't be so.. Only 600 odd pages in Part 61 and same in its' MOS isn't much of an achievement. Roll on 1000 pages in each. What's a few more pages of patronising, prescriptive legalese telling instructors how to suck eggs? With a legacy like this, any aviation experienced DAS would be sneaking out the backdoor at 16:59 on Friday.

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Lead Balloon , 9th Jul 2020 01:30
It is Orwellian. An incomplete dog’s breakfast is described as the resolution of the longstanding regulatory reform program. These people have no shame.

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Bodie1 , 9th Jul 2020 01:33

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Maybe I am just a little bit nieve because I am at the start of my career in aviation but I just believe in giving everyone a chance to prove themselves that's all.

Oh he's proven himself alright, to be a bumbling, incompetent fool.

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exfocx , 9th Jul 2020 03:18

The Australian Way!
Why would ANYONE here be surprised by the way things have panned out? This is the Australian way, pedantry; Australia is a pedantic country, we take things to the nth degree, we do not allow common sense and I think that is because of our nature. Everything has to be very prescriptive because if something goes wrong it will be argued "well, the rules don't disallow that...." and that will be carried as a just defence and out comes a rewriting of the rules, we are very lawyerly! Notice when our pollies rip off their allowances and when caught the catchcry response is that the rules aren't clear enough "The rules don't say I can't fly to my mates party at taxpayers expense after only attending a "party meeting" in the same city for all of 5 minutes".

Intent never gets an airing, the response is always "but, that isn't what it says!". People look for workarounds and the response is more and more rule writing.

Lawyers love this approach, with a prescriptive approach you can find a way around whatever is in your way.

MTF? - Probably not...P2