10-07-2017, 07:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-07-2017, 07:23 PM by thorn bird.)
This is absolutely lateral thinking. The coiffured clown do nothing Darren, has already indicated his capture by the Mystic of safety scam.
The reality that CAsA unions run the aviation agenda, much like the teachers union run education, means there's little chance of any meaningful reform. They will sabotage anything that anyone tries to implement that attempts to improve efficiency and change the status quo.
Think of part 61.
The intention was to simplify and improve pilot standards and reduce costs. What these people morphed it into is a complete cluster***k of unintelligible gobbledygook that saps the life blood out of an already fragile industry. The same could be said of part 141 and 142 which could perhaps explain the exodus of flying training to more sensible countries. People will just have to get used to no aviation and illiterate kids, unless they want to import aviation personnel from overseas (already Happening) or export their kids offshore to gain a proper education (already beginning to happen).
This Co-Op idea, if you can't beat them, join them, has some merit. AOC's are currently being shared, perhaps not in a formal sense, but there are owners attaching their aircraft to an AOC holder to operate on their behalf, the costs of doing so are bad enough but pale into insignificance compared with trying to obtain their own AOC.
Given the obscene costs of gaining an AOC and the huge regulatory cost burden of maintaining it, this co-op model could provide an answer by sharing the red tape, and the myriad of unproductive key personnel required by CAsA to match their own bloated bureaucracy. It will not however alleviate the extraordinary costs of including an aircraft on an AOC.
The old saying "there's strength in numbers" may also come into play. As we know smaller aviation companies are in reality Ghost managed by CAsA FOI's. They decide, from the CEO down who is fit and proper to occupy the roles in the company CAsA decide are necessary. Gum nut airlines, their imagined operator with a couple of small turbines and Navajo's had something like twenty Admin staff. There is also evidence that they decide which pilots may be employed. Anyone on their shit list doesn't get a look in, the chief pilot is powerless to implement operational practices, in some cases expressly contradicting manufacturers recommended practices, without their express approval, all care, but of course no liability or responsibility.
A larger outfit administering an AOC covering a multitude of operators could put a brake on these excesses to a certain extent and provide some protection against retributive action when a small operator is confronted with some of their more ridiculous and patently unsafe directions but dare not push back.
The danger in all this is CAsA, confronted by intransigence to their direction, may attempt to take out the core personnel and bring down the whole shooting match down. The commercial side of GA, even if everyone was on the same page, would not have the resources the big airlines do to face them down if it came to real stoush and unfortunately they know it.
The reality that CAsA unions run the aviation agenda, much like the teachers union run education, means there's little chance of any meaningful reform. They will sabotage anything that anyone tries to implement that attempts to improve efficiency and change the status quo.
Think of part 61.
The intention was to simplify and improve pilot standards and reduce costs. What these people morphed it into is a complete cluster***k of unintelligible gobbledygook that saps the life blood out of an already fragile industry. The same could be said of part 141 and 142 which could perhaps explain the exodus of flying training to more sensible countries. People will just have to get used to no aviation and illiterate kids, unless they want to import aviation personnel from overseas (already Happening) or export their kids offshore to gain a proper education (already beginning to happen).
This Co-Op idea, if you can't beat them, join them, has some merit. AOC's are currently being shared, perhaps not in a formal sense, but there are owners attaching their aircraft to an AOC holder to operate on their behalf, the costs of doing so are bad enough but pale into insignificance compared with trying to obtain their own AOC.
Given the obscene costs of gaining an AOC and the huge regulatory cost burden of maintaining it, this co-op model could provide an answer by sharing the red tape, and the myriad of unproductive key personnel required by CAsA to match their own bloated bureaucracy. It will not however alleviate the extraordinary costs of including an aircraft on an AOC.
The old saying "there's strength in numbers" may also come into play. As we know smaller aviation companies are in reality Ghost managed by CAsA FOI's. They decide, from the CEO down who is fit and proper to occupy the roles in the company CAsA decide are necessary. Gum nut airlines, their imagined operator with a couple of small turbines and Navajo's had something like twenty Admin staff. There is also evidence that they decide which pilots may be employed. Anyone on their shit list doesn't get a look in, the chief pilot is powerless to implement operational practices, in some cases expressly contradicting manufacturers recommended practices, without their express approval, all care, but of course no liability or responsibility.
A larger outfit administering an AOC covering a multitude of operators could put a brake on these excesses to a certain extent and provide some protection against retributive action when a small operator is confronted with some of their more ridiculous and patently unsafe directions but dare not push back.
The danger in all this is CAsA, confronted by intransigence to their direction, may attempt to take out the core personnel and bring down the whole shooting match down. The commercial side of GA, even if everyone was on the same page, would not have the resources the big airlines do to face them down if it came to real stoush and unfortunately they know it.