A curly one.
Not sure where to post this, it’s a strange thing and not a topic that I’d ever imagined would surface. In short – WTF are the CASA DAS and CASA Chairman suddenly all concerned over ‘commercial’ matters.
Skidmore trotted it out as a weasel worded platitude at estimates – concerned that it was unfair, so unfair to those who had spent their money fitting ADSB that he couldn’t possibly consider delaying full implementation. When I heard that – it seemed like one of the backroom spin merchants had work-shopped the answer for him, lest he cop a hiding from Fawcett or Xenophon. Noted and filed, I then ignored it as just another escape chute excuse, to be forgotten during the ‘caretaker’ period, when the really nasty stuff gets shovelled out of the back door. Operations normal.
There was mention of same made at the Tamworth stockade, but it got short shrift and drowned out by other questions.
Then I listened carefully to the Boyd interview on ABC radio: and bugger me, there it was again. CASA getting all concerned about ‘commercial’ matters, fairness of competition and costs, from Boyd. Rewind, listen again – click.
Two things: (i) nobody in CASA seems to give a flying duck about the huge commercial impost this system has already imposed; and, (ii) now that expenditure is being used as a lever to enforce the 2017 deadline. Now that is about as cynical as it gets and worthy of comment; but the thing puzzles me most is CASA have always resisted, in the strongest possible manner any compromise which relates to commercial realities. “Safety cannot be etc. Blah, blah, blah, you know the speech.
As stated, from CASA I would except this level of duplicity to be espoused by Skidmore, it’s very much his style. But it knocked my socks off to hear Boyd mouthing the same bullshit.
No one in CASA gave a toss when the financial impact was hurting every operating company in the country, now suddenly ‘commercial’ considerations are a weapon to be used in the battle to retain the ludicrous 2017 deadline and bring in ADSB four years ahead of the developed, grown up aviation nations.
You can see why I’m puzzled about where to park this post.
Toot – head scratch – toot.
Not sure where to post this, it’s a strange thing and not a topic that I’d ever imagined would surface. In short – WTF are the CASA DAS and CASA Chairman suddenly all concerned over ‘commercial’ matters.
Skidmore trotted it out as a weasel worded platitude at estimates – concerned that it was unfair, so unfair to those who had spent their money fitting ADSB that he couldn’t possibly consider delaying full implementation. When I heard that – it seemed like one of the backroom spin merchants had work-shopped the answer for him, lest he cop a hiding from Fawcett or Xenophon. Noted and filed, I then ignored it as just another escape chute excuse, to be forgotten during the ‘caretaker’ period, when the really nasty stuff gets shovelled out of the back door. Operations normal.
There was mention of same made at the Tamworth stockade, but it got short shrift and drowned out by other questions.
Then I listened carefully to the Boyd interview on ABC radio: and bugger me, there it was again. CASA getting all concerned about ‘commercial’ matters, fairness of competition and costs, from Boyd. Rewind, listen again – click.
Two things: (i) nobody in CASA seems to give a flying duck about the huge commercial impost this system has already imposed; and, (ii) now that expenditure is being used as a lever to enforce the 2017 deadline. Now that is about as cynical as it gets and worthy of comment; but the thing puzzles me most is CASA have always resisted, in the strongest possible manner any compromise which relates to commercial realities. “Safety cannot be etc. Blah, blah, blah, you know the speech.
As stated, from CASA I would except this level of duplicity to be espoused by Skidmore, it’s very much his style. But it knocked my socks off to hear Boyd mouthing the same bullshit.
No one in CASA gave a toss when the financial impact was hurting every operating company in the country, now suddenly ‘commercial’ considerations are a weapon to be used in the battle to retain the ludicrous 2017 deadline and bring in ADSB four years ahead of the developed, grown up aviation nations.
You can see why I’m puzzled about where to park this post.
Toot – head scratch – toot.