IF you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,
Perhaps it is time Aleck resigned in order to spend more time with his few remaining marbles. This lunacy, not to mention the expense of seeming to be compliant with the ICAO SARPS etc. must come to an end. The minister needs to take a long, serious look at the huge amounts of money pumped into feeding the deception that Australia is a good, compliant aviation citizen; IMO it is not. The breath taking audacity, monumental arrogance and deliberate manipulation of ‘system’ are clearly apparent when examined closely.
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Past and present government ministers have been or are quite willing to accept the myth that Australia is compliant and has a very safe rule set; a world leader. This is simply the happy horseshit spoon fed to people who cannot possibly understand, or are disinclined to look closely at the realities. The industry hardly has time to do the research; the incredible loads, both financial and operational, demand so much manpower and money that it precludes a WTD moment, followed by protest.
Another disincentive is the protection of ‘rice-bowls’; operational peace and compliance quiet, balanced on a razors edge. To get operations running ‘smoothly’ is, at the best of times, a Herculean task without starting to dig around the foundations, the base blocks on which operational status is based. Rocking the boat and asking awkward questions is a black hole that few will venture near.
But they should. An operation like Qantas for example could, in a heart beat, put some clever folk to work and research exactly how much the current system costs as opposed to how much it would cost if Australia was truly a model aviation citizen. In compliance cost alone Alan Joyce could improve his bottom line substantially. This has to be better than just grinning and bearing it; going along to get along.
This blatant deception, foisted on an unsuspecting public costs a serious amount of money; the current on going sick farce of regulatory reform costs as much again; the cost to industry of compliance with the massive overburden of ‘compliance’ under the ‘regulations’ is reducing the margin between viable and moribund to anorexic levels.
Take a long hard look at the real data on ICAO compliance – even on a self assessment basis, Australia is a long way behind the modern aviation world and grievously suffering for it. Yet the lunatics running the asylum want gold stars, more money to continue the pantomime and a bonus; on account o’ being good. Bollocks.
'If You do as you've been told, 'likely there's a chance,
You'll be give a dainty doll, all the way from France,
With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood -
A present from the Gentlemen, along 'o being good !
Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark -
Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk.
Laces for a lady; letters for a spy,
Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by!
Selah.
Perhaps it is time Aleck resigned in order to spend more time with his few remaining marbles. This lunacy, not to mention the expense of seeming to be compliant with the ICAO SARPS etc. must come to an end. The minister needs to take a long, serious look at the huge amounts of money pumped into feeding the deception that Australia is a good, compliant aviation citizen; IMO it is not. The breath taking audacity, monumental arrogance and deliberate manipulation of ‘system’ are clearly apparent when examined closely.
Past and present government ministers have been or are quite willing to accept the myth that Australia is compliant and has a very safe rule set; a world leader. This is simply the happy horseshit spoon fed to people who cannot possibly understand, or are disinclined to look closely at the realities. The industry hardly has time to do the research; the incredible loads, both financial and operational, demand so much manpower and money that it precludes a WTD moment, followed by protest.
Another disincentive is the protection of ‘rice-bowls’; operational peace and compliance quiet, balanced on a razors edge. To get operations running ‘smoothly’ is, at the best of times, a Herculean task without starting to dig around the foundations, the base blocks on which operational status is based. Rocking the boat and asking awkward questions is a black hole that few will venture near.
But they should. An operation like Qantas for example could, in a heart beat, put some clever folk to work and research exactly how much the current system costs as opposed to how much it would cost if Australia was truly a model aviation citizen. In compliance cost alone Alan Joyce could improve his bottom line substantially. This has to be better than just grinning and bearing it; going along to get along.
This blatant deception, foisted on an unsuspecting public costs a serious amount of money; the current on going sick farce of regulatory reform costs as much again; the cost to industry of compliance with the massive overburden of ‘compliance’ under the ‘regulations’ is reducing the margin between viable and moribund to anorexic levels.
Take a long hard look at the real data on ICAO compliance – even on a self assessment basis, Australia is a long way behind the modern aviation world and grievously suffering for it. Yet the lunatics running the asylum want gold stars, more money to continue the pantomime and a bonus; on account o’ being good. Bollocks.
'If You do as you've been told, 'likely there's a chance,
You'll be give a dainty doll, all the way from France,
With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood -
A present from the Gentlemen, along 'o being good !
Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark -
Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk.
Laces for a lady; letters for a spy,
Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by!
Selah.