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P2 UP watch - Sunfish TB answers Dick's QON

Another decade of misery to follow.

Heart sorry for Mike; and, disgusted by the treatment received.

“Men deceive themselves in respect of their own affairs, and most of all in respect of those on which they are most bent; so that either from impatience or from self-deception, they rush upon undertakings for which the time is not ripe, and so come to an ill end.” Machiavelli.

It seems the swamps of Sleepy Hollow are not to be drained; the pathways are not to be cleared of bramble. All is to remain untouched, the vile creatures therein allowed free rein, protected.

Corporate governance and political convenience now holds sway over true reform. The insult and offence given under the Boyd signature is delivered to all who strive to break the shackles of mindless, bureaucratic, administratively delivered embuggerance.

Selah.

On UP duty...

I note that Dick made a couple of comments and posed a relevant Q/ on the Boyd Bored rejection of A1, internationally recognised aviation safety reformer, Mike Smith:

Dick Smith: ...My whole life has been about getting the Aviation Act changed to reflect viability of companies. Even saw the minister about three weeks ago about this very issue. Got nowhere. Wasting your breath, time & effort there Dick..


And I now hear a person who could do a lot to reduce costs has been rejected by the CASA Chairman and Board for consideration for the top job.

Why are they doing this?

   
Finally Sunfish TB responded with a typical 'nail it down' choc frog post answer...

"And I now hear a person who could do a lot to reduce costs has been rejected by the CASA Chairman and Board for consideration for the top job.


Why are they doing this?"

It's really quite simple Dick.

Self Interest.

There is a cadre of people in the top echelon of CAsA known as the "Iron Ring" who have been there for years, they are the ones who have lead Australian aviation to the bottom.

They know full well that to employ someone like Mike Smith, a proven reformer, would jeopardise their position at the trough. They are also aware that with their level of incompetence they'd be unlikely to find employment anywhere else.

From what people who have experienced the CAsA cesspit and left tell me, they left because they were competent people and recognised their talents would never be utilised. I'm told that there are rafts of people within CAsA who are only there because its the only place where they can study for their degrees, or masters and receive a massive salary in the process. Its no wonder it takes months, even years, to obtain make work approvals when half the staff are working on their own self interests rather than the job they are paid to do.

I know one company trying to get an aircraft on their AOC, got charged 16 hours for an FOI to check that a manufacturer supplied, FAA approved QRH, exactly matched the content of the manufacturers, FAA approved flight manual.

It is self interest and a reflection of the incompetence in the top echelon of CAsA that has produced the folly of our regulatory debacle, half a billion dollars of taxpayer dollars fritted away and more in the pipeline, to achieve absolutely nothing except a massive cost burden that has brought a whole industry to its knees.

Australia is just not being smart like the Kiwi's. Self interest right across the public service in Australia from energy policy, aviation,to almost every corner of industry is driving the mind boggling mountain of red tape, strangling everything in its path...

Yep TB nailed it with: "ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE" 


MTF...P2