Lead Balloon of the UP nails it - 
Ref: https://www.pprune.org/australia-new-zea...31844.html
You could not make this stuff up.
Amazingly, we heard that the CMT initially allocated to APTA comprised a bunch of delicate petals who had been captured by Mr Buckley, and Mr Buckley has harassed, stalked and assaulted CASA staff! Naturally, none of these allegations have been put to Mr Buckley or referred to police. You just make the allegations under Parliamentary privilege. Brave man, Mr Carmody!
CASA 'tries to accommodate' McDermott Aviation's business model. How kind of you! It must be mindbogglingly difficult to deal with the operator of N-registered aircraft. All those 'hoops' CASA has to 'jump through' to 'accommodate' a foreign registered aircraft in Australia. The potential risks to aviation safety of an N-registered aircraft in Australia must be catastrophic. And we all know why people keep aircraft on the N-register: Because of Australia's Galapagos regulatory regime whose outputs are not recognised in first world aviation nations. It is 'kinda handy' keeping aircraft on the N-register, Mr Carmody, for reasons that we all know.
More than 70% of McDermott Aviation's jobs had been completed by CASA within 30 days. Wow! Give yourself a bonus! Does McDermott Aviation pay fees for those jobs to be done?
CASA "approved" 25,000 aviation medicals in the last 12 months and "rejected" 84. Tell us, Mr Carmody: Out of the 25,000 "approved" medicals, how many of the applicants were subjected to tests and have conditions imposed on their certificates, which tests and conditions the applicant's doctor and specialist medical advisors say are not necessary? How much did and will those tests cost in terms of time, dollars and risk exposure to the persons subjected to the tests? How is it that a bunch of glorified GPs in CASA know better than qualified specialists?
And then there's the pilot accused of low flying. Mr Carmody literally said this:
"That's not what the instruments on his aircraft say, Senator. They say he was at 125'."
I shit you not: That's what Mr Carmody said.
Was Mr Carmody or someone from CASA in the aircraft looking at "the instruments" during the flight in question? Methinks not.
Methinks that CASA might be going on the output, not of "the instruments", but of a transponder or GPS 'chip'. Gosh, transponders and GPS 'chips' now reliably transmit or record the actual distance, down to the foot, of an aircraft above the actual terrain/water below? Who knew? And I'm sure the punters to whom I wave adjacent to me on the South Head Signal Station when I fly down Victor 1 would swear on a stack of bibles that I'm 'low flying'. And on a nice high pressure day, my transponder says I'm at minus 100'. I guess the punters must be right!
Methinks CASA would have some considerable difficulty convincing the CDPP to prosecute on the basis of these kinds of 'evidence'. So what does CASA do when it doesn't have evidence to support the prosecution of someone? It persecutes them administratively and condemns them under Parliamentary privilege. Brave man, Mr Carmody!
And I just shake my head at the regulatory reform bullshit.
CASA announced, in July 2020, that Mr Carmody had achieved "the resolution of CASA's long standing Regulatory Reform Program" and "oversaw the end of the epic safety regulatory reform program". But in the hearing, Mr Carmody said "the reg program is pretty much complete". Which is it? (Rhetorical question. We all know the answer. It's back to the weasel words that we've been hearing for decades. The "major parts" have been completed and, of course, like Part 61, will be fantastic when they come into operation.)
Mr Carmody seemed to me to be saying that anything 'before his time' in the regulatory reform program is not a problem. All of his predecessors' contribution to the regulatory train wreck is just - well - it just is. A whole bunch of people from industry were involved in consultations throughout, so apparently they have no grounds on which to complain. Apparently, that makes the regulatory train wreck - which has none of the promised characteristics and achieves none of the promised outcomes - OK.
Apparently, turning 200 pages of complex, convoluted dross into 73 pages of complex, convoluted dross in the form of the Part 138 MOS is a 'good' thing from Mr Carmody's perspective. And apparently the industry asked for it! What the industry actually asked for, Mr Carmody, was blessed relief from the process: The production of something - anything - to just 'make it stop'. And, of course, the Part 138 MOS is incomplete. It has "reserved" Chapters. And we all know why.
And then Mr Carmody said that the whole of the regulations should be reviewed!
I say again: You could not make this stuff up.
MTF...P2
Ref: https://www.pprune.org/australia-new-zea...31844.html
You could not make this stuff up.
Amazingly, we heard that the CMT initially allocated to APTA comprised a bunch of delicate petals who had been captured by Mr Buckley, and Mr Buckley has harassed, stalked and assaulted CASA staff! Naturally, none of these allegations have been put to Mr Buckley or referred to police. You just make the allegations under Parliamentary privilege. Brave man, Mr Carmody!
CASA 'tries to accommodate' McDermott Aviation's business model. How kind of you! It must be mindbogglingly difficult to deal with the operator of N-registered aircraft. All those 'hoops' CASA has to 'jump through' to 'accommodate' a foreign registered aircraft in Australia. The potential risks to aviation safety of an N-registered aircraft in Australia must be catastrophic. And we all know why people keep aircraft on the N-register: Because of Australia's Galapagos regulatory regime whose outputs are not recognised in first world aviation nations. It is 'kinda handy' keeping aircraft on the N-register, Mr Carmody, for reasons that we all know.
More than 70% of McDermott Aviation's jobs had been completed by CASA within 30 days. Wow! Give yourself a bonus! Does McDermott Aviation pay fees for those jobs to be done?
CASA "approved" 25,000 aviation medicals in the last 12 months and "rejected" 84. Tell us, Mr Carmody: Out of the 25,000 "approved" medicals, how many of the applicants were subjected to tests and have conditions imposed on their certificates, which tests and conditions the applicant's doctor and specialist medical advisors say are not necessary? How much did and will those tests cost in terms of time, dollars and risk exposure to the persons subjected to the tests? How is it that a bunch of glorified GPs in CASA know better than qualified specialists?
And then there's the pilot accused of low flying. Mr Carmody literally said this:
"That's not what the instruments on his aircraft say, Senator. They say he was at 125'."
I shit you not: That's what Mr Carmody said.
Was Mr Carmody or someone from CASA in the aircraft looking at "the instruments" during the flight in question? Methinks not.
Methinks that CASA might be going on the output, not of "the instruments", but of a transponder or GPS 'chip'. Gosh, transponders and GPS 'chips' now reliably transmit or record the actual distance, down to the foot, of an aircraft above the actual terrain/water below? Who knew? And I'm sure the punters to whom I wave adjacent to me on the South Head Signal Station when I fly down Victor 1 would swear on a stack of bibles that I'm 'low flying'. And on a nice high pressure day, my transponder says I'm at minus 100'. I guess the punters must be right!
Methinks CASA would have some considerable difficulty convincing the CDPP to prosecute on the basis of these kinds of 'evidence'. So what does CASA do when it doesn't have evidence to support the prosecution of someone? It persecutes them administratively and condemns them under Parliamentary privilege. Brave man, Mr Carmody!
And I just shake my head at the regulatory reform bullshit.
CASA announced, in July 2020, that Mr Carmody had achieved "the resolution of CASA's long standing Regulatory Reform Program" and "oversaw the end of the epic safety regulatory reform program". But in the hearing, Mr Carmody said "the reg program is pretty much complete". Which is it? (Rhetorical question. We all know the answer. It's back to the weasel words that we've been hearing for decades. The "major parts" have been completed and, of course, like Part 61, will be fantastic when they come into operation.)
Mr Carmody seemed to me to be saying that anything 'before his time' in the regulatory reform program is not a problem. All of his predecessors' contribution to the regulatory train wreck is just - well - it just is. A whole bunch of people from industry were involved in consultations throughout, so apparently they have no grounds on which to complain. Apparently, that makes the regulatory train wreck - which has none of the promised characteristics and achieves none of the promised outcomes - OK.
Apparently, turning 200 pages of complex, convoluted dross into 73 pages of complex, convoluted dross in the form of the Part 138 MOS is a 'good' thing from Mr Carmody's perspective. And apparently the industry asked for it! What the industry actually asked for, Mr Carmody, was blessed relief from the process: The production of something - anything - to just 'make it stop'. And, of course, the Part 138 MOS is incomplete. It has "reserved" Chapters. And we all know why.
And then Mr Carmody said that the whole of the regulations should be reviewed!
I say again: You could not make this stuff up.
MTF...P2