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Noddy & Big Ears take charge - KEI (Key Embuggerance Indicators)

A couple of disturbing recent reference posts:

miniscule Dazzling Dazza: "Nothing to see here, move along!" - FDS  

Well Gobbles it would seem that once again you hit the nail fair smack on its head and the miniscule can now trot out some more bullshit lines and everyone from the ICAO wank-fest confirms that Murky, Dr Hoodoo & Dr W##er are doing a stellar job obfuscating our aviation safety deficiencies DownUnda : 

UN aviation Assembly a success for Australia
Media Release
DC140/2016
11 October 2016

I am pleased to announce Australia has had its Category One status on the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) governing Council reaffirmed following an election process involving more than 190 member states.

This continues our tradition of serving as a ‘State of chief importance in civil aviation’ on the Council. As a founding member of the body, I am delighted Australia has retained this status following the election at ICAO's 39th Assembly in Montreal, Canada.

ICAO is the specialised United Nations agency for international cooperation in civil aviation and works to enhance aviation safety, security, efficiency, and sustainability.

Australia's participation at the Assembly has once again demonstrated our global aviation leadership and enabled Australia to influence key international aviation safety, security and environmental standards and recommended practices.

Another significant achievement for Australia at this year's Assembly was the awarding of the most prestigious award in international aviation, the Edward Warner Award, which was awarded to the late Dr David Warren AO, an Australian citizen renowned for inventing the ‘black box’ flight and data recorder.

An historic agreement was also reached to introduce a global carbon offsetting and reduction scheme for international aviation to control carbon dioxide emissions.

The agreement is the culmination of more than six years of negotiations and is the first time an industry sector has committed to reducing its carbon footprint on a global scale.

 GD - Total of around 11 attendees (trough swillers) from Australia;

- Airfares are business class at around $11k each, = $110k
- 7 days accommodation at around $4k pp = $28k
- Meals, entertainment, vehicles and fiddles are approx $2k pp = $14k
- Salaries. Each attendee earns between $200k - $800k p/a. If you take a medium of $350k, divide that by 52 weeks they average around $6,730 per week. Times that by 11 = $74k


Total = $226,000 AUD for this farce.

Money well spent according to the miniscule - OFDS!

The twerp-tweep which puzzles.

ATSB - “Although there has been a slight growth in the number of accidents over the past three years, there were considerably fewer accidents each year in the past decade than in the previous 25 years.”

Just trying to puzzle out why ‘that’ CASA tweet turned up, when it did. I wonder if this is the beginning of a ‘hardening’ of attitude; Chester is bragging and posturing about our ‘great success’ at the latest ICAO gabfest.  There are other small indications that the iron fist, hidden within the artificial velvet Skidmore glove is about to reappear. As the man once said “when you have ‘em by the balls; hearts and minds will follow”.

There’s the rub; operators, particularly in the small to middle range know that CASA have their nuts in a vise.  The ever present threat of a ‘special’ audit; the delay on an approval; faux ‘difficulties’ or disliked drafting in an operations manual etc.; lots and lots of options for CASA to use, as crowd control. One veiled threat and the mouse that roared will scuttle back to its hole and tremble, wishing it had never popped out. You can’t really blame the operators for pulling their collective heads in – out of harms way.

That ‘tweep’ may well have been misconstrued – stand alone it seems innocuous, a little pointless even; or as the unlamented Wodger would say “unfortunate”. Now, had it been followed by another which ‘bragged’ that CASA and ATSB working with AAAA had been able to make improvements; then we could see real reform, happening in real time; and, cheer; loud and long.

So the choices; unfortunate; a call to arms; a failed ‘feel good’; a sinister veiled threat; or just another example of the CASA detachment from reality.

Don’t know and I ain’t certain I care a button. There was only ever the smallest hope that reform of CASA, as it stands, could actually happen without a reform DAS; one who actually can do the job.  Carmody will keep the ship afloat and pointed away from dangerous waters; but he will not, indeed he cannot control the rats down in the bilges. Is this ‘twerp-tweep’ the opening stanza of the Retribution sonata, played while the cats away? Pest control for safe skies – anyone.  

Toot – contemplative toot.

Which leads me to the following courtesy of Oz Aviation magazine...

Shane Carmody starts as acting CASA chief executive
October 12, 2016 by australianaviation.com.au
Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester (left) and CASA acting chief executive Shane Carmody. (Minister Chester’s office)

Senior public servant Shane Carmody has taken his seat as acting chief executive of Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).

Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester said Carmody, whose most recent position was as Deputy Secretary at the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, would be in the role for up to 12 months or until a new chief executive was appointed by the CASA board.

Carmody takes over from Mark Skidmore, who announced his resignation as CASA chief executive and director of aviation safety in August, less than two and a half years into his five-year term.

Chester said Carmody would continue to progress the implementation of CASA’s response to the Aviation Safety Regulatory Review (ASRR).

“Mr Carmody’s appointment will ensure the aviation safety regulator retains strong leadership as the reforms are finalised,” Minister Chester said in a statement on Wednesday.

“A domestic and international search for a new CEO is currently underway.”

In his various roles at the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, Carmody had responsibility for aviation and airports, the Office of Transport Security, the Western Sydney Unit and local government and territories.

Also, Carmody worked at CASA for about three years between 2006 and 2009 as deputy chief executive for strategy and support. He also worked at the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defence.

His appointment as acting CASA chief executive was first announced on September 1.

“Implementation of the important reforms will require CASA to work closely with all sectors of the aviation industry, a role where Mr Carmody’s previous experience should prove invaluable,” Chester said.

In his final CASA Briefing column, Skidmore acknowledged there would always be “points of tension between the regulator and the regulated”.

However, the retired RAAF Air Vice-Marshal said this was normal and the sign of a healthy relationship.

“As the safety relationship matures we all need to recognise these points of tension and work to address our differences in a positive way,” Skidmore said.

“Genuinely listening to each other is critical and sometimes both sides will have to accept there is no magical middle solution that satisfies everyone.

“What CASA and the aviation community must strive for are the right safety outcomes, reached through proper processes, real consultation and transparent decision making.

Read my (immaculately crafted) felt lips : In case you missed it, Murky Mandarin's ventriloquist dummy, the immaculate miniscule Dazzling Dazza said: ...Carmody...would be in the role for up to 12 months or until a new chief executive was appointed by the CASA board...

I would suggest that if Big Ears is in the job for up to 12 months then the industry will be gutted beyond repair...


MTF...P2   

Ps IOS/SOI plea - A bit of divine intervention needed - SOI (Save Our Industry)

Pps: The Can'tberra disease (aka AIOS) reaches plague proportions, reference the Mandarin thread:

Fat cat bureaucrats plundering the trough -

A couple of references:

Enough of the Hollowmen & AIOS - FDS!

In the latest Ferryman Sunday ramble sums up the aviation safety bureaucracy 'paradox': 

Kharon - Irresistible force paradox.

"Wiki – “The paradox arises because it rests on two incompatible premises: that there can exist simultaneously such things as irresistible forces and immovable objects. The "paradox" is flawed because if there exists an irresistible force, it follows logically that there cannot be any such thing as an immovable object and vice versa”.

Despite the paradox – we need to move an immovable object. Difficult task; but, move it we must.

Personally I think this could be applied across a much wider spectrum of the Federal bureaucracy and is systematic of more than a decade of successive poor governance and direction at an executive government level,  Sandy dubs it the 'Canberra disease' and Ventus reckons it is a syndrome i.e. "acquired institutionalised ostrichitis syndrome" (AIOS).




 

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Alexander 1 hour ago

By their silence Qantas, Virgin, Jetstar and Tiger have maintained their three wise monkeys stance (hear no, see no, speak no evil) so as not to offend their master CASA. Much easier to jack up the airfares to pay for the irrational, erratic and costly procedures of an all powerful but dysfunctional bureaucracy than to take a principled stand. Small aviation businesses have been taxed and ground down with unworkable rules so much so that foreign pilots are now hired on the 457 working visa list. John C points to one of the symptoms of bureaucracy, the aversion to egg on face. Very good reasons for this aversion, huge salaries and amazing working conditions. Not to mention that in the scramble by Ministers to distance themselves from responsibility governments of both stripes have created numerous independent statutory bodies like CASA.

What we've been slow to perceive is that they are not public servants at all (not subject to the Public Governance and Service Act), but a new breed of self serving bodies whose main preoccupation is to cover their failings and protect their Minister while indulging on the public purse. Alex in the Rises.