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TAAAF calls for Industry Action Taskforce
22 July 2016

The Australian Aviation Associations Forum (TAAAF) has called on returning Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester to direct CASA to create an industry action taskforce.

In a communique released this morning, TAAAF stated that it considered such a taskforce critical to resolving regulatory issues.

"Forum participants highlight the value of creating a new partnership with industry, as outlined in the Forum 2016 aviation policy and continue to be disappointed with the lack of action in critical areas from CASA," the statement said.

"The Forum expresses frustration at the disarray of the regulatory system, with new regulations likely to continue to remove jobs and opportunities from the industry through increased costs for no safety outcome.

"The Forum calls on the Minister to direct the CASA Board to establish a small joint industry action taskforce to fix clearly identified problems.

"The work program of the taskforce must include urgent remedies especially for CAO 48.1, but also CASR Parts 61/141/142/ 101/121/135 and the aviation medical area.

The TAAAF communique also went to express concerns over the lack of progress in implementing the reforms of the Aviation Safety Regulation Review and said the Forum would welcome David Forsyth being tasked to conduct a review of the reform progress.

TAAAF highlighted ADS-B, harmonisation, training and maintenance, drones and CASA's inconsistency as areas of particular concern, pointing out that their own policies contained expertise that the government should be acting upon.

"The TAAAF Aviation Policy 2016 provides a wide range of appropriate expert advice on aviation issues and the TAAAF participants recommend the policies to the Government for further consultation and implementation."

Read more at http://www.australianflying.com.au/lates...puZv8kk.99

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