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AMROBA Mid Year Review 

Courtesy KC, via the AP emails:

Are our members and other industry participants wasting their time inputting to CASA Proposals? 

The one thing that is certain: red tape and costs will increase unchecked due to government imposed changes. 

If you look back on what has been promulgated over the last decade, the results of change supports the fact that industry  inputs have not stopped:

• The shortage of maintenance personnel over last 20 years: 
  

1. Virtually no all-of-government (DEWR/MISA) cooperation developing:
   

• B1.3/4 AME trade and licensing NVET courses and qualifications for CASA licencing;
  
• B1.2 AME trade and licensing NVET courses and qualifications for CASA licencing;
  
• Below 760 Kg basic aeroplane NVET trade course and qualification for RAAus licencing ;
  
• Numerous bridging NVET courses between each course; and
  
• Specific product standalone NVET courses and qualifications.
  

 

• Part 43, from full support for  FAR part 43 adoption to CASR Part 43 total rejection.
  

1. Complete failure to adopt the FAR because drafters lack understanding of FAR.
   

• CASA Project team have not done FAR Part 43 training with the FAA.
  

 

• Training of CASA personnel in how to give effect to Conventions Annexes SARPs has not happened.
  

1. ICAO provides Regulator Training which ICAO Council Part 1 members and others utilise.
   
2. Managing Compliance with ICAO SARPs – 5 day course for CASA managers, especially project managers.
   

• This is fundamental training for all department/agency staff involved with regulatory reform should complete;
  
• We have brought this to CASA management notice before.
  

• ICAO audit finding 2023/24:-  industry is being denied the benefits of compliance with the SARPs 
  

How many decades of reform do we suffer until someone wakes up to the fact that regulations should be simply adopting the text of the Annexes based on the FAR regulatory structure.

What a waste of millions of dollars over the decades because the personnel in the public service have not undergone ICAO provided training that other NAA staff regularly attend. 

Recommendation:  Government introduce a trading program with ICAO to provide Department/CASA staff with the right qualifications to manage the Chicago Convention obligations and compliance with the Convention’s Annexes’ SARPs.

• Specifically, ICAO Provided training: Managing Compliance with ICAO SARPs must be compulsory training if Australia is to obtain civil aviation trading safety agreements that will enable CASA issued Australian certificates of approvals of design, manufacture, maintenance, technical training and the government’s Authorised Release Certificate to be accepted by other ICAO member nations in their own right.
  
• That should be  the aim of engineering  regulatory reform: a regulatory system that enables both global and domestic safe trade of products and services.
  

 

Ken Cannane

Executive Director

AMROBA

Phone: (02) 97592715

Mobile: 0408029329

www.amroba.org.au

Safety All Around.

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