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Warning Will Robinson – warning: Once there is an ability to draw a line; all bets on a CVD pilot being able to satisfy the ICAO 'operational criteria' are off. Any form of arbitrary points CVD scale, rating if you like, generated by CAD will be used to prevent 'operational assessment'.  Say there is a 0 – 10 scale based on CAD: 0- 4 points good to go 5 – 10 no medical issued, so no operational test and 25 years of safety evidence goes down the pan.  The CAD solves the problem for CASA, not for Jimmy Wannabe.  CAD is a medical improvement but a retrogressive tool for the use of Avmed, covering it's collective rump.  Up to the CVD troops to fight for future generations.  Curse Pooh-Sham and all who wallow in his trough. 

Nailed it "K" that is the standard conundrum with any past edicts/promises that CASA makes on any of a number industry complaint issues of badly written regulations.

Dear DAS Skidmore...As Creamy says just refer to the publicly available ASRR Submissions and look at what is high on the list of common CASA complaints from industry. Then refer to my post#14 on the NX thread & this video...

...or better still refer to the latest contribution's from Gobbles & Thorny on the same thread:

...Over regulation, unworkable and/or irrelevant rules, poor industry oversight and excessive financial burden is in itself a significant risk that is being created by CASA. People like Forsythe, Nick, Fawcett and others have worked out the root cause of this, but the Miniscule hasn't. If Truss was a CP he would've been shown the door by now. Truss has continued the Albo legacy and if he could pull his head out of the trough for just long enough he might just see that the toffee has well and truly worn off the turd, exposing a rancid flyblown mess.


The writing is on the wall boys and it has been written in the blood of people like Sally Urquhart, Karen Casey et al, so to speak. What will it take to wake up these dipshits residing in their own personal Forrest in Canberra? While the bureaucrats sit on leather Italian couches playing with themselves and comparing the depth of their superannuation accounts the clock keeps winding down......TICK TOCK MINISCULE TICK TOCK

"Dick Smith is threatening to launch a political party aimed at the Senate unless he sees reform at CASA (Civil Aviation and Safety Authority) and in the government’s general aviation policy."

25 years or so ago CAsA began their "regulatory Reform" project.
25 Years and $250 Million Dollars later we have Part 145, Part 61, Part 135 to come.
A read of a previous post lists all the Government policy and outcomes they expected. Where any of them achieved?
There were people warning people, way before these pieces of crap legislation became law, that the industry better sit up and take notice, because this was serious Sh.t and could mean the end of the industry.

Did the Industry Listen???? Let alone get off their asses and do anything, except argue amongst themselves?

We have witnessed our secondary airports flogged to property Sharks utilizing corrupt immoral practices. There were people warning that without objection our airports would disappear.
Primary Airports have become the biggest tax dodge in history and get voted the worlds worst year on year, and our secondary's are slowly being chewed to death by circling property sharks...too much money, no control, no objection, and rampant corruption. Any dissenting voices?...talk about the silence of the lambs!!

In recent times we have CAsA begging the Govn. for funds...Fuel levee is the answer to raise $90 million to employ extra front line personnel. Were any employed??

Na, but a bunch of managers and consultants were.

The levee has not been rescinded, so their still raking it in, but now CAsA want and extra $25 Million via dodgy service charges. That is a service charge for services that are entirely unnecessary, that serve no "Safety" function, merely swell CAsA's coffers.

Just how much can Industry absorb??

We have absorbed $170 million or so in costs to be the "First in the world" to mandate ADSB compliance. All to advance a CAsA CEO's nomination to the highest rank in ICAO. Save the government a vast sum for radar replacement and ensure ASA exec's got a nice little bonus.

We have absorbed the imposition of a vast swathe of incompetently formulated, inane regulations written by lawyers that nobody can understand that place Australia completely out of step with the rest of the world adding crippling costs to virtually everything we do in the running of our businesses.

Did we hear long and loud complaints for what would appear blatant corruption??..not a squeak.

Wow I'm glad I'm at the end of it. I really despair for the young people coming through. There is no hope for them. Their efforts are for nought.

What a waste of resources, time, energy and enthusiasm.

But I digress back to the Avmed angle & a question that hangs now over the Germanwings tragedy - where apparently the F/O was a nutter and deliberately crashed into the French Alps in an apparent mass murder/suicide??
Gobbles: "Yep, this CASA medical tripe, blah blah blah pilots can't see, blah blah, truly is a load of old bollocks. I wonder what medical tests the Germans use (my initial guess would be that a fist and urine is involved) because no silly test and nit-picking regulator crap seems to be able to stop a fruitcake from steering his A320 into a mountainside?? "
And that is the question are we going to get a standard overreaction by aeromedical regulators not only here but around the world?
In the following Avweb blog article Paul Bertorelli poses that question & makes some excellent observations of the Germanwings tragedy along the way:

Germanwings: The How May Be Easier Than the Why


By Paul Bertorelli | March 26, 2015

I should know the answer to this by now, but in a futile gesture, I flipped on the TV Thursday afternoon to see if CNN had dropped into 24/7 crash coverage of Germanwings 9525. Of course it had, and I have to concede, having honed its skills on MH370 a year ago, CNN is really good at filling airtime when minimal information is available.

I suppose the network is just giving the audience what it wants, but I have to wonder if the audience really wants a banner that says “Deliberate Death in the Alps.” I could do with something a little less tabloidish, if not for journalistic restraint then for the survivors of victims who might surf across this coverage.

One thing wall-to-wall coverage does is attempt to provide “answers,” on the assumption that a trained pilot deliberately flying an airplane into a mountain is somehow explainable. And by the way, I’ll make the feeble attempt here to note it hasn’t been officially determined that this is what 28-year-old First Officer Andreas Lubitz actually did. But based on the matter of fact statement of a French prosecutor who’s dealing with an air crash-turned-manslaughter case, it sure looks that way.

Personally, I’m not at all baffled that someone could do this nor am I much curious about why he would. I don’t need the why to close this circle. Suicide, if that’s what it was, is baked into the human DNA and a certain number of people will commit it, either deliberately with great planning and aforethought or capriciously, just because an opportunity presented itself. In 1954, John Thomas Doyle jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and left this note: “Absolutely no reason, except I have a toothache.” CNN can air all the experts it likes and there’s no explaining or predicting any of this. I think it’s just part of the human condition. Airline pilots are no more or less immune to it, in my view. They don’t walk on water.

But the consequences are another matter entirely. And they weren’t slow in coming. We got an email an hour ago from Norwegian, a regional carrier in Europe, advising that it will require two people in the cockpit at all times. If one leaves to visit the lav, another crew member sits in. I’ll admit that I didn’t know that European airlines weren’t already doing this. U.S.-based airlines evidently have been for a while. I’m sure other European and Asian airlines will consider this simple, commonsense rule.

But where does it go beyond this?

"..I have an uneasy feeling that legislators could push regulators into requiring more extensive psychological screening of pilot candidates or those already flying. Look what happened with the obstructive sleep apnea issue, all on the strength of virtually no evidence worthy of the name that it’s a problem for pilots. But suicidal tendency?.."  P2- Why does that sound so familiar??

How easy it would be to make this accident a smoking gun to mollify a CNN-stoked audience that wants explanations and answers now. It’s not like this hasn’t happened before. The NTSB said EgyptAir 990 was a pilot suicide, although the Egyptians rejected that. SilkAir 185 was inconclusive but the pattern strongly suggested a suicidal pilot. 

"..One can only hope this doesn’t percolate down to the general aviation level just as we are on the verge of ridding ourselves of the Third Class medical requirement. Professional pilots are already poked and prodded enough; they surely don’t need a deeper round of Rorschach tests.."

Give credit to CNN for recruiting expert talking heads that make more sense than their anchors ever can. One of these was Les Abend, who wrote on these pages a couple of weeks ago offering his take on MH370. He said this accident, if the initial facts are borne out, hit him like a punch to the gut. I can relate. We always expect better of our fellow pilots—or our fellow humans for that matter—and a tragic accident like this just shows how profoundly that trust can be misplaced. 

P.M. addition: I just learned that there is a means to override the cockpit door lock via coded entry. Here's a video on it. Make of it what you will.

    
Creamy states.."Either way, I'm quickly coming to the conclusion that you've joined the long line of people who are part of the problem..."

Q/ Is Skates joining the CASA Conga Line?? Well the first signs aren't overly encouraging but I guess if industry don't grasp this opportunity then we will never really know if Mr Skidmore's olive branch was genuine or just another in a long line of false promises...
MTF...P2