TAAAF Aviation Policy - 2016.
The statement is very well done and well worth the reading. Any government serious about keeping aviation – all aviation – alive and well for future generations should pay the TAAAF statement a little more than lip service and most definitely not send it off to the ‘department’ for, ahem; consideration. The only consideration it will get there will be deciding whether it can go through the shredder in one lump, or two.
TAAAF once again provide proof positive and beyond any reasonable doubt that the ‘expertise’ required to make aviation productive resides with industry. The agencies ASA, ATSB and CASA have, consistently, over the past decades become an expensive incubus and a dangerous one. Here again, the evidence is incontrovertible: commission after commission; inquiry after inquiry; white paper after white paper, report after report, review after review have wasted millions and achieved nothing. Well, nothing except a DPM fighting to be re elected needing to take time out to face a cynical, unhappy audience of aviation folk.
Some say there are no votes in aviation; the same folk said the same about the truck driving crew. Problem is on average everyone in the industry knows other folk. Now if Uncle Bill’s workshop or brother Pete’s job or the airport café is going to suffer badly through government non intervention; those folk will talk to other folk and so on. If the election is going to be ‘tight’ every one of those folk’s votes, including the aviation folk, becomes important. A wise PM would do well to have a chat with the Senate Standing Committee if confirmation of just how much trouble the industry is in and why, is needed (not the department, the Senators). They know; clever folks who have consistently tried to keep our ‘safety’ watchdogs and services honest.
Anyway, I digress. Well done TAAAF, bravo. There is 30 minute window for ‘closed’ discussion available on May 6, 1400 hrs at Tamworth, the DPM will be there. I know many would like to see the TAAAF strongly represented. Personally I would like to see the ‘new’ AOPA aligned to and working with TAAAF. Eureka is a good, honest start to AOPA regaining it’s standing and independence.
Aye well; I can still live in hope of a united industry, can’t I?
Toot toot.
The statement is very well done and well worth the reading. Any government serious about keeping aviation – all aviation – alive and well for future generations should pay the TAAAF statement a little more than lip service and most definitely not send it off to the ‘department’ for, ahem; consideration. The only consideration it will get there will be deciding whether it can go through the shredder in one lump, or two.
TAAAF once again provide proof positive and beyond any reasonable doubt that the ‘expertise’ required to make aviation productive resides with industry. The agencies ASA, ATSB and CASA have, consistently, over the past decades become an expensive incubus and a dangerous one. Here again, the evidence is incontrovertible: commission after commission; inquiry after inquiry; white paper after white paper, report after report, review after review have wasted millions and achieved nothing. Well, nothing except a DPM fighting to be re elected needing to take time out to face a cynical, unhappy audience of aviation folk.
Some say there are no votes in aviation; the same folk said the same about the truck driving crew. Problem is on average everyone in the industry knows other folk. Now if Uncle Bill’s workshop or brother Pete’s job or the airport café is going to suffer badly through government non intervention; those folk will talk to other folk and so on. If the election is going to be ‘tight’ every one of those folk’s votes, including the aviation folk, becomes important. A wise PM would do well to have a chat with the Senate Standing Committee if confirmation of just how much trouble the industry is in and why, is needed (not the department, the Senators). They know; clever folks who have consistently tried to keep our ‘safety’ watchdogs and services honest.
Anyway, I digress. Well done TAAAF, bravo. There is 30 minute window for ‘closed’ discussion available on May 6, 1400 hrs at Tamworth, the DPM will be there. I know many would like to see the TAAAF strongly represented. Personally I would like to see the ‘new’ AOPA aligned to and working with TAAAF. Eureka is a good, honest start to AOPA regaining it’s standing and independence.
Aye well; I can still live in hope of a united industry, can’t I?
Toot toot.