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Duck Pilot - UP POST OF THE WEEK!!

In regards to the above article, Duck Pilot smashes it out of the park...

Via the UP:

Duck Pilot

If there wasn’t a conflict of interest in this, I’ll walk naked through Myer’s!

Talk about egg on CASA’s face, all because they simply do not have any idea on how to consult with industry.

I’m not taking sides, however the accident currently under investigation may never have happened if CASA would have provided better consultation and effective surveillance on the operator, opposed to bull****ting around with inefficient crap relating to risk management.

Sadly CASA employs good people with great experience, and most of them get totally frustrated with the bureaucracy and go back to industry after a few years in the job.

Lots of lessons to be learn’t from this tragic accident, and some of the things that have been reported against the operator have been common practice within the industry for years both in rotary wing and fixed wing. I’ve worked for some dodgy outfits and got sacked for speaking up on at least two occasions - Falcon Airlines and Tasair. I reported my concerns to CASA at the time and I was intimidated and ignored, then many years later I decided to join CASA in an effort to kill the poison, it didn’t work however the experience and knowledge gained was great as it’s given me great opportunities.

I’ve since had dealings with CASA after leaving the place and nothing has changed. I’ve got a clanger of an email on file from the current CEO to me that demonstrates her shear incompetence, relating to the regulation reform specific to the implementation of an SMS for Part 135 operators. Some puppet within had obviously drafted the crap and she had signed on it and forwarded it to me. It will be framed and put in my man cave when I retire with a few other gems mostly related to funny **** that I’ve collected over the years in PNG.

Senator Rice Written QON 145 - AQON:

Senator Janet Rice asked:

• General Aviation Maintenance (GAM) Group operates a Turbo Commander, a Grand
Commander AC680, and Shrike Commander AC500S. Are these planes allowed to
operate on a daily basis in Austtalia over heavily populated areas?
• Please provide the total number of aircraft using leaded fuel flying over Brisbane.
• How many piston engine aircraft using leaded fuel have used Brisbane and Archerfield
airport in the last 12 months? Please issue a table with a weekly breakdown of numbers,
movements, plane type, age, operator, and destination for the last 12 months.

Answer:

There are no restrictions for flight over heavily populated areas of Australia for the Turbo
Commander, Grand Commander AC680 and the Shrike Commander AC500S.
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) does not and is not required to keep information
about the movements of aircraft and their fuel type.
Leaded fuel (Avgas 100LL) is used by most piston-powered aircraft in Australia (with some
exceptions). There are 12,104 piston-powered aircraft currently registered in Australia.
CASA does not have information on the activity and movements of individual aircraft.

Are the Greens really that ignorant of the fact that the majority of GA piston engine aircraft run on 100LL avgas? Ignorant or otherwise does this spell the death knell for GA operators using piston engine aircraft out of the major city secondary airports?

MTF...P2