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CASA 'Just Culture' message goes global -  

Cap'n Aux - Calling ALL Pilots!

Considering that Carmody - seemingly in conflict of his endorsed CASA 'just culture' philosophy - is hell bent on continuing the CASA culture of pilot persecution/embuggerance i.e. 'just blame he pilot' - see Part III: Credulity – Slightly stretched? - Just a bit. & #99. - I thought the following research project survey, courtesy of Karlene Petitt, was worthy of posting...

Via Cap'n Auxier...

Calling All Pilots!


Too often, accidents are blamed on “Pilot Error.” This oft-erroneous assumption fails to dig deeper into root causes, and can miss the chance to improve air safety

  

Along the same lines of 'Just Culture' vs blaming the pilot (regulator embuggerance); from the following, short MRO Network article, it would appear that after a long transpacific flight the Carmody carrier pigeon has made landfall in the USofA...

Australia Adopts Kinder, Gentler Approach To Regulatory Enforcement

Australian Civil Aviation Safety Agency changes policy on use of safety data in enforcement actions.

Crystal Maguire | Dec 05, 2017


Authority (CASA) director of aviation safety is instructing agency staff to adopt a “just culture” approach and to limit using safety information as the impetus for enforcement actions.

According to the authority’s new regulatory philosophy, data and information maintained in a safety data collection system (e.g., safety management system) or acquired in the normal course of surveillance will not be used to support disciplinary action. Instead, “individuals and organizations found to have violated a provision of the safety rules will be given an opportunity to address and correct safety issues without CASA initiating enforcement action,” states the newly published directive.

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It makes exceptions for certain instances of criminal conduct and noncompliance that are recurrent, deliberate, negligent or pose a serious and imminent risk to safety. It also sets forth a process for certificate holders to challenge adverse actions if they support it with safety information in a manner consistent with the instruction.

The publication illustrates increased focus on nonpunitive information-sharing and a risk-based safety approach. In 2015, the FAA adopted a new regulatory philosophy limiting enforcement action to circumstances of “deliberate, willful or reckless breach of the aviation safety rules . . . a pattern of repeated misconduct or . . . failure to take appropriate corrective action. . . .” According to one recent official agency public address, the number of FAA enforcement actions has decreased 70% since this compliance policy has been adopted. 

Ahh yes the Carmody bollocks 'weasel word' instruction...  

Re-read the MRO network article once again, then consider; 1) that Carmody by inference still supports the former DAS McCormick's black letter edict, merely by not instructing a re-write/amendment of the current version of the CASA Enforcement Manual, a version that still contains the original recalcitrant McCormick moniker in the preface (ref link: #64 )

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 2) Then consider the 8+year ongoing embuggerance of Dominic James, that with recent discovered factual evidence;

•  highlights a possibly illegal but definitely ill-informed and inept original Greg Hood decision;
  
•  that was then varied administratively multiple times, including variations that on the face of it seemingly breached the terms of a, AAT oversighted, Coordinated Enforcement Process agreement between CASA and DJ; (ref from here - The 0904 from Auckland. ) 
  

Then, to top that off, reflect on the previous post from Sandy - “Good morning Dominic”, - plus P9 and my confab post - Comedy degenerates into Farce. - ably supported by Senate Estimates Hansard & Youtube viewing:

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 ...and you begin to get a real picture behind the smiling façade of DAS Comardy...

Combine that with the fact that, in recent email correspondence on the DJ embuggerance case, DAS Carmody had to be reminded of his own 'instruction' by his personal assistant minion:

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Then despite correspondence from Falcon Air CEO and AOPA Oz President Marc de Stoop, Carmody decides to handball the matter to his 2IC Graeme Crawford, who in turn handballs back to the Sydney office which included the obviously conflicted individuals of Worthington and Campbell that were involved in the original dodgy embuggerance of DJ - FDS!

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However the real clincher that Carmody is nothing more than yet another hypocritical 'Iron Ring' endorsed muppet DAS - that intends to maintain the punitive big "R" regulator status quo of the McCormick era - lies in the fact that despite his issuing of DAS DIRECTIVE 02-17 (see pg 45 - HERE ) and the concerns voiced by Nick Xenophon in Senate Estimates; Carmody has not stepped in to overrule the ridiculous and expensive observation (chop) flight.  

Ironically if DJ were to fail this CASA enforced - Greg Worthington observed and oversighted non-standard CAR 217 prof check - then the CASA approvals of the FalconAir CAR 217 and the international flight training service provider Flight Safety International would by inference have to be rigorously reviewed. 

The following excerpt and quote by P9 in the SBG more than adequately highlights how nonsensical that scenario/outcome would be:

...So, to whom do we look for probity and surety that all is well within Australian commercial aviation? Certainly not CASA; a quick ten minute wander through the Hansard recordings will confirm the theory that CASA is a raving, out of control, incontinent megalomaniac, in need of help. The pungent whiff of corruption pervades the corridors and taints the Kool-aid. If it were ‘normal’ baksheesh I could live with that – it is an accepted method of doing business; most certainly corruption but at least the rules are clear. CASA is corrupt in twisted, sinister ways, from the grass roots through to the top office, non of it beneficial. At grass roots you have a muppet like Worthington, daring to dictate to senior check pilots and Flight Safety trainers ‘how’ operations should be conducted and checked. The man is not only an inexperienced chump, a fumble fingered amateur pilot, but dishonest with it...

...A long track record which would not withstand serious scrutiny and yet the CASA boss supports the risible notion that his man is capable of making a fair, honest impartial assessment of both check captain and candidate. I, for one of many, would not allow the clown to get within a bulls roar of an aircraft in my command. There, in a nutshell lays the problem; Carmody to Worthington; top to bottom, twisted, deceitful and wrong. 

  
MTF...P2

Ps Remember this? #18