10-15-2022, 07:43 AM
Post #41 Elias Visontay article:-
“With a positive image for local pilots generated by well-respected airlines, training schools and Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority regulator,…”
should have read “…..in spite of Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority regulator,..”
For years and years the very obvious consequences of CASA’s woefully expensive and unworkable regulatory complexities have been forecast. These forecasts were ignored by CASA. Irresponsibility writ large.
CASA’s policies have wrecked havoc in the General Aviation training environment. Having lost hundreds of flying schools across the Nation ,due entirely to counterproductive regulatory overload and ever more unnecessary permissions requiring swingeing fees, what would you expect?
Just another glaring example that the CASA model of governance of aviation, Parliament giving power to an unelected and unaccountable independent corporate, has been a disastrous failure of government policy. A policy that violates the Westminster principle of Parliamentary and Ministerial responsibility.
Essentially the regulator has been distanced from the voting public, by having its operations distanced from democratic control. CASA has, predictably by degrees, seen to its own trajectory in the absence of full Ministerial control within a Department of Government.
Nothing could more exemplify the Canberra bubble of disconnection from the realities of aviation commerce, the lack of leadership from Parliament, the CASA Board and senior management is extraordinary. A pretence is sustained that all is well in spite of the evidence uncovered time and again in the never ending series of the Government’s own inquiries let alone any dispassionate examination of the facts of our GA industry if compared to its previous (pre CASA) growth profile or that of other comparable countries.
“With a positive image for local pilots generated by well-respected airlines, training schools and Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority regulator,…”
should have read “…..in spite of Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority regulator,..”
For years and years the very obvious consequences of CASA’s woefully expensive and unworkable regulatory complexities have been forecast. These forecasts were ignored by CASA. Irresponsibility writ large.
CASA’s policies have wrecked havoc in the General Aviation training environment. Having lost hundreds of flying schools across the Nation ,due entirely to counterproductive regulatory overload and ever more unnecessary permissions requiring swingeing fees, what would you expect?
Just another glaring example that the CASA model of governance of aviation, Parliament giving power to an unelected and unaccountable independent corporate, has been a disastrous failure of government policy. A policy that violates the Westminster principle of Parliamentary and Ministerial responsibility.
Essentially the regulator has been distanced from the voting public, by having its operations distanced from democratic control. CASA has, predictably by degrees, seen to its own trajectory in the absence of full Ministerial control within a Department of Government.
Nothing could more exemplify the Canberra bubble of disconnection from the realities of aviation commerce, the lack of leadership from Parliament, the CASA Board and senior management is extraordinary. A pretence is sustained that all is well in spite of the evidence uncovered time and again in the never ending series of the Government’s own inquiries let alone any dispassionate examination of the facts of our GA industry if compared to its previous (pre CASA) growth profile or that of other comparable countries.