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Exemption upon exemption; repair on repair, cock up, counter cock-up and 2200 pages of pages of gobbledegook.   MoS to be manipulated, process to be adjusted, it just goes on and on, ad nauseum ad tedium (add vomitus).  Would someone explain how, in few short months the abomination is going to be fixed.  Tick, Cross and Wait could not, if you set fire to it, rang a bell and threw a bucket of water over him find his arse, let alone unscramble this mess.  In ten years time, a new bunch of Senators are going to be sat there, shaking their heads and wondering how, in the seven hells we ended up with such a mess of exemption, corruption and criminal charges against industry.  

There should be no need whatsoever for any form of exemption; not against standards or licensing.  Not after two decades.  Now, industry, realising rape is inevitable is determined to lay back and enjoy it; thinking only of the privileges bestowed by becoming one the exclusive, exempted hand picked crew to receive the CASA 'treatment'.  (Spell check – Lobotomy).

Skidmore's double entendre

Visiting this month's Skidmore missive is just as frustrating as watching that pathetic little weasel Wodger (in the above video... ) squirm, snigger, spin & poonce around while totally bullshitting about the Part 61 "post implementation review" maybe...just maybe to be completed within the 'calendar year'...FFS!   

How many times have we heard that before??- And this from yet another one of the former Angry Man's fleabag Wodger Wabbit's...     

But I diverge back to the Skidmore monthly missive:

In reviewing the development and implementation of the licensing suite I can see a number of improvements we can make in our processes. The first is to do more work up front before the regulations are made. This may involve testing the regulatory proposals in a practical way with the aviation community or running a pilot program to ensure implementation plans are optimal. At all stages we need a better dialogue with the aviation community to allow us to communicate, consult meaningfully and to listen carefully to all constructive feedback. Most importantly, CASA needs to put more effort into educating and training our own people about the new regulations and their implementation so we can give clear and consistent advice to the aviation community.

    
FCOL this bloke just doesn't get it - someone bring me a bucket...  . 
{Comment: Passing strange that the release of the - weasel worded - Skidmore missive just so happens to be a day after Estimates...   Yeah right like that is a coincidence  }  

Anyway the following is the Hitch version of the Skates missive with the excuse: CASA has Scope for Improvement: Skidmore - FFS do you reckon??

29 May 2015

CASA Director of Aviation Safety Mark Skidmore had admitted the regulator could improve the way in implements new regulations.

In his CASA Briefing Newsletter for May 2015, Skidmore explained that complexity and implementation were two areas the regulator could look at doing better.

"I fully accept CASA can make improvements in both the way regulations are developed and implemented," Skidmore said. "We do start with the intention to make new regulations as clear as possible, using plain language without unnecessary complexities. We most certainly do not set out to write regulatory requirements that are hard to understand.

"But like many good intentions our goal can get lost during the journey and, for a range of reasons, the result can sometimes be regulations that are more complex than desired."
One of the things impacting the complex nature of regulation is the government requirement for legislation to comply with the federal drafting style, which by its nature tends to result in lengthy, more complex regulations. Clearly, Skidmore feels hamstrung by this.

"In short, it is not always easy or even possible to create ‘simple’ regulations. But having said that, it is CASA’s job to strive towards the goal of clarity, coherence and precision using plain and easy to understand language."

Skidmore has also admitted that the way CASA has implemented new regulations in the past could so with some improvement.

"The first is to do more work up front before the regulations are made," he said. "This may involve testing the regulatory proposals in a practical way with the aviation community or running a pilot program to ensure implementation plans are optimal.

"At all stages we need a better dialogue with the aviation community to allow us to communicate, consult meaningfully and to listen carefully to all constructive feedback.

Most importantly, CASA needs to put more effort into educating and training our own people about the new regulations and their implementation so we can give clear and consistent advice to the aviation community."

See it is someone else's fault...
 

And this was Hitch's comment on the above in his weekly wrap -

It seems to me that CASA is telling us gently that we can forget one of the Forsyth recommendations: plain-English regulations. In his CASA Briefing Newsletter for May, Mark Skidmore points out that they would like to get complexity out of the CASRs, but the government drafting style is getting in the way. I have no doubt he's right. The legislative drafting style is unwieldy, legalese gobbledygook designed to be interpreted by only legal minds, not the general public to which they apply. The incongruity is that the style actually impedes aviation safety rather than promote it because the average person has no idea what many regulations actually say. In 2010, US president Barack Obama signed an act that forced US regulations to be written in plain English. It's way over due that we had something similar happen here, even if it's only for aviation safety regulations.

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