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A ghost at the banquet.

Been watching this thread since kick off; impoverished for lack content.  The much heralded, long awaited reform process has simply died aborning.

It is quite clear now that even with the best will and efforts of many, there will be no meaningful reform, particularly of CASA.  Every now and then a small thrill ripples through the industry; Jeff Boyd and the board are going to do something – result zero change.  Every now and then there is a catspaw of breeze from the winds of change from a RRAT committee – result zero change.  Dick Smith and the Oz (‘Iggins) start barking at the moon, days of press – result zero change.   Skidmore ambles about the place “listening” and offering meaningless platitudes – result zero change.

Is the industry screaming blue bloody murder? Demanding change now ? The only answer is NO.  Why? Well that is an easy one to answer, the stakes are high, the retribution awful and the cost of the game is hardly worth the candle; when you know the deck is marked.

No matter; Plonker Shidmore will have it all sorted by 2030; I can’t wait.  (I should live that long).

MACBETH (seeing the GHOST)

Avaunt, and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee.
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold.
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with!

Edit - addendum: I just noticed on the UP there is a barking match starting up – rumbles of No confidence and reminders that 66, 61, 145 and CAO 48.1 have all been passed into the volumes of legal requirements; they are now going to spend days drafting protests against 91 and the dreadful 135; Bollocks.  Industry should ram the rules down the CASA collective throat’s; or other suitable orifice and demand the reforms promised.  Waste of time, ink and effort trying to persuade CASA to Duck off.  More time, more cost and more wasted effort.

Shame, shame, shame....

Shame is right, like a bunch of old, fat, apathetic, Lemmings playing bingo while sitting on a treadmill watching as the un-survivable precipice inevitably approaches; FFS - don't plonkers like Horatio realise that exemptions & one off back room deals will only delay the inevitable...

Here is Frank's worthy & colourful post off the UP - although I do feel it is all a case of 'too little too late' : 

A MOTION: Confidence or incompetence?

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Skidmore had time before taking up his position to be fully briefed on the situation at CAsA. This included a plethora of Senate inquiries, the ASRR, Pel-Air, Part 61, the Regulatory Reform Program, the entire Industry in a state of lacking any confidence in The Regulator and the incumbent's arrogance at Fort Fumble.

The Forsyth Review has NOT been addressed and this should have been the simplest and quickest item on his agenda to garner some Industry support. Marc D Stoop, (AOPA President) also notes this in his latest report.

It is rapidly becoming apparent that he has no intention of doing anything except mouth platitudes and call for further input. Either this, or he is being instructed to do nothing and is therefor not in control of his or our destiny.

The Regulatory Review process is evidence of either a planned obstruction of a once vibrant industry, or those in charge of the revision are incompetent.

It appears to be an exercise in wasting taxpayers time and money. The costs with time eclipsing the money if an audit of failed industry economic input is taken into account.

I am now of the opinion it is incompetence and our problem resolution is simply to advise the fare paying passengers their air travel safety is being compromised by incompetence.

There are hundreds of examples and all one needs to do is find a common thread without recourse to individual claims.

I believe that common theme, be it in the courts, the AAT or by individual FOI or engineering oversight, vexatious intervention or other is...
INCOMPETENCE.

Skidmore will perish unless he addresses this claim in it's infancy and good luck to him with that. I can only support a vote of no confidence in him if he doesn't immediately address the existing vote of no confidence by the industry in The Regulator of which he is head.

The CASA Board need to know where industry stands on this matter.

Supporting a vote of no confidence is probably the most desirable way to take this out of the hands of Minister Truss who appears to have gone missing in action. My suggestion to The Moderators is to Poll this motion. The results either way will put to bed industry opinion.

Hmm..good stuff Frank

However I still think a Fahrenheit 451 type protest...

"Don that PBE 'cause the regs are burning"



..with a chorus..."We won't sleep until the regs are burning" (to Midnight Oil - "Beds are burning")..would be are far more effective show of no-confidence in CASA & the indecipherable, 1000s of pages of bullshit regs...    

MTF...P2