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Dear Miniscule please consider giving this bloke a call, unlike your current aviation adviser it would appear that this bloke currently has no skin in the game (no potential COI), which is important when trying to breakdown many developed years of industry distrust with the big "R" regulator:

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Mike Hart
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Location New South Wales, Australia
Industry Farming
Edit experience Current

1. Self-employed
   

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• Public Profile https://au.linkedin.com/in/mike-hart-51b53bb4
  

Background
Summary
Blue Mountains Grammar School Wentworth Falls 1958-1969
Graduate of UNSW, Post Graduate; University Sydney, UNE, Civil Aviation College Melbourne.

Began career as law student and legal clerk NSW Attorney Generals Department. Commonwealth Government 1978 Department of Aviation Air Services.

Wide experience in the management of complaints and complex investigations involving the public sector through positions at the NSW Attorney General’s Department, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, and the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption.

He was the general manager for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association in 1999 during the (Mobil) Avgas fuel contamination crisis.

6,000 hours in a flying career and that has spanned the years 1972 to 2010 has held aviation industry positions including (QFI) qualified flying instructor with the RAAF (1 BFTS), and check and training captain with Coastwatch.

Michael Hart joined CASA as the Industry Complaints Commissioner (ICC) in June 2007. Retired from CASA in 2010,

Now involved in horiticultural activity/business and farming in the New England area of NSW
Experience
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Self-employed

Yours P2

Ps Nothing personal with your man, it just doesn't look good when the bloke comes from the former CASA regime.   

Pps Miniscule & PM if you need anymore evidence of the moral integrity of Mr Hart go no further than the following blog reply comment from him on the tragic VH-MDX disappearance in 1981:

Mike Hart



Nev

I was the ATS officer on the Sydney Sector (FIS 5) who had the misfortune to be on duty when these events occurred. It was one of the worst nights of my life. I later resigned from Air Services or the CAA as it was then, to pursue a career elsewhere. I later became a QFI with 1 BFTS RAAF Tamworth and an ATO and C&T Captain with Surveillance Australia (Coastwatch). I spent the last few years of my working life as the Industry Complaints Commissioner for CASA. I am now retired.

After nearly thirty years I have finally managed to bring myself to listen to the audio tape of the night MDX went missing you provided on your blog site. In my view the tape is out of sequence and the last bit should be at  the front and the middle towards the end and therefore the tape is not a reliable record of the events but merely pieces of the transcript.

FYI I was never interviewed by anybody, either from the then  BASI or Air Services Australia, nothing has changed my view in all this time that the aircraft had had a vacuum pump failure and that subsequently the pilot lost of control of the aircraft. I  have personally  had two such incidents in my flying career which required full instrument approaches on a limited panel, each time the loss of the pumps was insidious and not easily detectable except for the fact that I was on instruments both times and only a constant and proper IF scan alerted me early to the fact that the AI did not agree with the rest of the instruments a rigorous adherence to the basic adage Attitude Plus Power=Performance. I do not blame the pilot in anyway, he was presented with a set of circumstances which were beyond him at the time in an aeroplane that has had more than its share of such failures which nobody really trained for or took seriously. I can say that of the hundreds of pilots I subsequently taught, trained and tested I made such all of them could handle a limited panel and then some!

It was a very tragic accident and merely reinforced my professional view that NGTVFR was merely a rating that allowed you to end up sometime in an environment where you were going to come to grief.

Regards

Mike Hart