[Peetwo]

Miniscule portraits and punch-drunk sheep -   

 

Excellent post Gobbles...  

And while we're on the subject what about his (regurgitated) aviation ill-adviser (plus Wannabe pollywaffle) Steve (MacBeth) Campbell...  

Well here is a short (but scary) trip back in time, where apparently I majorly erred back in 2016 and gave SMC 'the benefit of the doubt'...  

Reference: Shame or fame for Chester - post #24  

"K": ...I was going to have a poke about and see what we could expect in the form of an “aviation advisor” to the new minister.  It’s a fairly important role, considering that Chester will, in all probability, defer to the guidance offered.   Anyway, “Lead Sled” posting on the UP did a thumbnail sketch which saves me the bother.  Cheers LS.

Voice for Aviation or Cuckoo in the Nest.

Folks,

As some of you will be aware, the new Minister for Infrastructure and Transport has a new Aviation Adviser.

He is Steven Campbell, who has a most interesting CV (according to Linked In) starting as a GA instructor, CFI at Tyabb, moving up a traditional path into Regionals, and then cracking it with Cathay, where it looks like he finished up on B777 as a Training Captain.

Then --- maybe --- it all changes, joining CASA and eventually becoming Project Manager for Part 61/142/142. The greatest disaster in the history of aviation regulation in Australia.

Any body know if he has quit CASA, or is he on secondment/leave of absence to go to the Minister's office.

Is he going to be a voice for industry, and what must be done, including fair dinkum action on the Forsyth Report ?? 

Or is he a very cunning CASA plant, to sell the CASA line that everything is really hunky dory in Australian aviation, it's just a matter of industry malcontents getting too much publicity, Senators who are an irritant, and the NZ rules won't work, because they "don't meet Commonwealth legislative drafting protocols" ( like much other Commonwealth legislation that comes from O/S, that has been "incorporated by reference" in Australian legislation).

And Parts 61/141/142 are really ground breaking legislation that other NAA are panting to copy --- according to the CASA "official" line.

Tootle pip!

Certainly food for thought;  or the stuff of nightmare.   Handing over...

Reference: SMC Linkedin link - https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-campbell-7a534a74/

...This bloke had nothing to do with the writing of the 'death to GA', 2000+ page behemoth that is the current Part61 & Part61 MOS, so I'll be withholding judgement till proof otherwise that he is a former acolyte & recruit of McComic...   

One positive is that he should be able to sort the wheat from the chaff in the stories/theories & otherwise with MH370 being a former B777 Check & Training pilot albeit with Cathay Pacific. He should also have a reasonable understanding of the aviation industry in that neck of the woods i.e. SE Asia.

Ps Besides we're (PAIN) only too happy to keep watch on Stevo in his endeavours to keep the Miniscule well informed on matters aviation...   

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crankybastards - 

 Groan... Here we go again giving people the benefit of the doubt. 
1) The man comes from the Ministers electorate.
2) He comes from Cathay, the CASA embryonic breeding ground of everything negative about AUSTAV.
3) Any side of government in Australia is compromised by bureaucratic intervention.
4) CASA are not the model corporate example.
5) There are crooks afoot.

It's time to draw a line in the sand until any appointment is purged from influence of contemporary regulatory authority. The whole show is compromised and no benefits of any doubts can be given until the most sincere of demonstration "Seppuku" is carried out.

No more... no more, will anybody trust anybody until this takes place

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ventus45 

Groan... Here we go again giving people the benefit of the doubt. 
1) The man comes from the Ministers electorate.
2) He comes from Cathay, the CASA embryonic breeding ground of everything negative about AUSTAV.
3) Any side of government in Australia is compromised by bureaucratic intervention.
4) CASA are not the model corporate example.
5) There are crooks afoot.

It's time to draw a line in the sand until any appointment is purged from influence of contemporary regulatory authority. The whole show is compromised and no benefits of any doubts can be given until the most sincere of demonstration "Seppuku" is carried out.

No more... no more, will anybody trust anybody until this takes place.

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Peetwo

Cranky so have you any positive suggestions for who his adviser should be? Because if you do I am only too happy to pass them on?? https://twitter.com/DarrenChesterMP Come on create a list..chop..chop   

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crankybastards

One ex ICC Hart comes to mind.

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Peetwo

Okay let's work on that 

Dear Miniscule please consider giving this bloke a call, unlike your current aviation adviser it would appear that this bloke currently has no skin in the game (no potential COI), which is important when trying to breakdown many developed years of industry distrust with the big "R" regulator:

 

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Mike Hart
Mr
Location New South Wales, Australia
Industry Farming
Edit experience Current

1. Self-employed
   

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• Public Profile https://au.linkedin.com/in/mike-hart-51b53bb4
  

Background
Summary
Blue Mountains Grammar School Wentworth Falls 1958-1969 
Graduate of UNSW, Post Graduate; University Sydney, UNE, Civil Aviation College Melbourne.

Began career as law student and legal clerk NSW Attorney Generals Department. Commonwealth Government 1978 Department of Aviation Air Services. 

Wide experience in the management of complaints and complex investigations involving the public sector through positions at the NSW Attorney General’s Department, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, and the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption. 

He was the general manager for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association in 1999 during the (Mobil) Avgas fuel contamination crisis.

6,000 hours in a flying career and that has spanned the years 1972 to 2010 has held aviation industry positions including (QFI) qualified flying instructor with the RAAF (1 BFTS), and check and training captain with Coastwatch. 

Michael Hart joined CASA as the Industry Complaints Commissioner (ICC) in June 2007. Retired from CASA in 2010,

Now involved in horiticultural activity/business and farming in the New England area of NSW
Experience
Mr
Self-employed

Yours P2 

P.S. Nothing personal with your man, it just doesn't look good when the bloke comes from the former CASA regime.    

Pps Miniscule & PM if you need anymore evidence of the moral integrity of Mr Hart go no further than the following blog reply comment from him on the tragic VH-MDX disappearance in 1981:

Mike Hart

Nev

I was the ATS officer on the Sydney Sector (FIS 5) who had the misfortune to be on duty when these events occurred. It was one of the worst nights of my life. I later resigned from Air Services or the CAA as it was then, to pursue a career elsewhere. I later became a QFI with 1 BFTS RAAF Tamworth and an ATO and C&T Captain with Surveillance Australia (Coastwatch). I spent the last few years of my working life as the Industry Complaints Commissioner for CASA. I am now retired.

After nearly thirty years I have finally managed to bring myself to listen to the audio tape of the night MDX went missing you provided on your blog site. In my view the tape is out of sequence and the last bit should be at  the front and the middle towards the end and therefore the tape is not a reliable record of the events but merely pieces of the transcript.

FYI I was never interviewed by anybody, either from the then  BASI or Air Services Australia, nothing has changed my view in all this time that the aircraft had had a vacuum pump failure and that subsequently the pilot lost of control of the aircraft. I  have personally  had two such incidents in my flying career which required full instrument approaches on a limited panel, each time the loss of the pumps was insidious and not easily detectable except for the fact that I was on instruments both times and only a constant and proper IF scan alerted me early to the fact that the AI did not agree with the rest of the instruments a rigorous adherence to the basic adage Attitude Plus Power=Performance. I do not blame the pilot in anyway, he was presented with a set of circumstances which were beyond him at the time in an aeroplane that has had more than its share of such failures which nobody really trained for or took seriously. I can say that of the hundreds of pilots I subsequently taught, trained and tested I made such all of them could handle a limited panel and then some!

It was a very tragic accident and merely reinforced my professional view that NGTVFR was merely a rating that allowed you to end up sometime in an environment where you were going to come to grief.

Regards

Mike Hart

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Gobbledock

Yuk yuk yak I flicked on mainstream TV, more specifically the Today Show this morning, to have my ritual perve on Sylvia Jefferies in all her scrumptious glory, and slightly off topic from the 'Stevo' discussion, low and behold Minuscule Chester was on the screen discussing the MH370 anniversary. More importantly was his 'political answer' to the question raised as to whether the search might be extended past the now infamous cutoff date. In true bureaucratic style he wouldn't answer yes or no. Take that however you wish, but to me that answer doesn't inspire much confidence in the man, however time will tell, and tell it will because the 60 Minutes clock stops for nobody.

My gut instinct tells me we have another spin doctor aka bureaucratic bullshit artist, after all that is what they do well, very well. And I think Barnaby has learnt from the Albo and Truss experience that it is safer to distance your presence away from the fire, put someone else (Chester and Stevo) in front of the firing squad instead. Maybe, maybe not. Either way that sort of ruse doesn't fool the IOS. We will ensure that any aviation shenanigans is linked directly back to you Barnaby and Malcolm, as you two are top rung of the ladder. But nice try, adding a few extra protective barriers in front of you, however it won't work as the IOS can see straight through your smoke n mirror show. You gotta get up earlier than that to catch us off guard.

TICK TOCK new Infrastructure bureaucrats TICK TOCK

Ever get the feeling that the administration of aviation safety in this country is stuck in some bizarre kind of Groundhog day...  

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Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil predicts more winter - CBS News

CBS News 

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MTF...P2 

Ps See the resemblance?