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While Fort Fumble crumbles? - A word from our sponsors the IOS

What an end to a week in the annals of aviation safety admin in the land Dunceunda, where it will all lead is in the lap of the Gods?? Here is a little bit of a wrap up that covers off some of the week's proceedings:

Yes Minister the numbers don't lie...

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Well apparently the straw that broke the camel's back was that - latest, expensive, touchy-feely, vomitus ‘report’ -  (HERE) ; check out Binger's latest (via the Oz) with this damning headline - Survey shows industry’s deep loathing for CASA. Not a good look if your the Minister... :

Phil Hurst says CASA has ‘a major management problem with transparency and accountability’. Picture: Ray Strange - P2 Edit: Sorry Binger no offence to Mr Strange but IMO the above pic is better...

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Infrastructure and Transport Minister Darren Chester has told the aviation regulator to pick up its game after an inaugural survey into its performance revealed a deep schism between it and the ­industry it oversees.

The minister’s warning to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority came as the nation’s air safety boss, Mark Skidmore, yesterday resigned from the aviation regulator after just 20 months. It is understood the two incidents are not linked.

"..The minister’s warning to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority came as the nation’s air safety boss, Mark Skidmore, yesterday resigned from the aviation regulator after just 20 months. It is understood the two incidents are not linked.."     - Yeah right!

The results of the government-ordered survey, by research agency Colmar Brunton, shows large segments of the aviation industry hold a deep dissatisfaction towards CASA on a range of issues.

More than 1200 respondents completed the survey, exceeding CASA’s target of 800, that shows about 46 per cent of the industry was “dissatisfied or very dissatisfied” when it came to their relationship with the regulator. Just 25 per cent of respondents said they were satisfied.

A key concern was a perception that CASA could be overly punitive rather than collaborative when it came to solving issues.

The organisation’s service delivery also copped a beating: 49 per cent of respondents said they were disappointed and CASA’s dialogue with the industry came out with a similar number of dissatisfied customers.

The most damning finding is the regulator’s score on its development of aviation safety regulations. On that issue, 58 per cent of respondents were dissatisfied or very dissatisfied.

A CASA spokesman said the organisation had developed a “comprehensive action plan in response to the survey’s findings, with work already under way in many key areas”.

CASA said it would test new regulations through internal peer review, where regulatory development and operational staff would assess impacts on industry before introducing new rules.

It also said new methods of consultation would be trialled, including enhanced online and greater face-to-face inter­action.

“CASA’s aim is for the aviation community and CASA to be partners in safety and we are working hard to achieve this goal,” the CASA spokesman said.

Mr Chester welcomed the findings of the survey, saying Australia’s enviable aviation safety record was due to the “important work of CASA in partnership with the aviation sector”.

But he also said “while progress has been made to improve the relationship between CASA and industry, there’s always more work to be done.”

“The survey has clearly highlighted that there are a range of areas where CASA needs to continue to improve,” he said.

Aerial Application Association of Australia chief executive Phil Hurst said the survey was a “fundamental confirmation of how broken CASA still is”.

“That is a damning indictment of CASA’s management and its inability to act decisively on yet another comprehensive review of its shortcomings,” Mr Hurst said.

“If anyone in business received this sort of feedback from clients they would either be out of business or doing everything within their power to claw back their reputation and trust.

“CASA is doing neither. CASA still has a major management problem with transparency, accountability and in developing ways to work positively with industry to create win-win scenarios.”

Mr Hurst said CASA needed to invert its philosophy to help industry be better, rather than forcing unworkable regulations that were crippling it with onerous costs.

“Someone at CASA — either the board or the minister — must step up and address these fundamental shortcomings urgently. AAAA strongly supports the minister and the board acting decisively to address the ongoing dysfunctionality of our aviation regulator,” he said. - Phil Hurst in bold: P2 OP - Again in not too many words Phil Hurst absolutely nails it - CF for PH...

Miniscule minder:"Yes minister, that little chap said that you are stark naked. Do you want me to go back an censor some of your last selfie-tweeps ??" -


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Ps Not sure who down there in Canberra is currently responsible for pulling Dazzling Dazza's strings but whoever it is could they please keep doing it and a lot harder...
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Hot off the Yaffa press -

 
RAAA urges New Effort in Reform Progress
26 August 2016

The Regional Aviation Association of Australia (RAAA) has called on the government to renew its efforts in reforming the CASA and to take positive action to harmonise Australia’s aviation safety regulations with the rest of the world.

The call comes in in the wake of last week's damning CASA customer satisfaction survey and the subsequent resignation of CASA CEO Mark Skidmore.

It is obvious that CASA needs to pick up its game

"With the announcement yesterday of the resignation of CASA’s Director of Aviation Safety, Mark Skidmore AM, the RAAA sees it as essential that the CASA Board moves as quickly as possible to appoint an appropriately qualified successor to carry out the necessary reforms within CASA," the RAAA said in a statement released on Friday.

"The RAAA called for a new deal for Australia’s aviation industry in light of the poor results of an independent stakeholder relationship survey conducted on the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)."

RAAA Chairman Jim Davis, commenting on the survey results, said that action was needed to prevent the recommendations of the Aviation Safety Regulation Review (ASRR) from falling by the wayside.

“It is obvious that CASA needs to pick up its game," Davis said. "It is now over 18 months since the ASRR report was adopted by the government but CASA has a long way to go in achieving its objectives.

“The Government now needs to take action to ensure that the ASRR report’s recommendations are effectively implemented and haven’t been turned into just another bureaucratic box ticking exercise."

The RAAA statement urged the government to review the progress of reforms stemming from the ASRR and to "direct CASA to harmonise Australia’s aviation safety regulations with overseas jurisdictions by removing the current red tape and unfair restrictions to competition suffered by Australian industry."

The full RAAA statement can be read on the link below.

RAAA Statement 26 August 2016

Read more at http://www.australianflying.com.au/lates...bRiE5T5.99

RAAA CALLS FOR NEW DEAL

The Regional Aviation Association of Australia (RAAA) today called upon the Government to renew its efforts in reforming the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and to take positive action to harmonise Australia’s aviation safety regulations with the rest of the world.

With the announcement yesterday of the resignation of CASA’s Director of Aviation Safety, Mark Skidmore AM, the RAAA sees it as essential that the CASA Board moves as quickly as possible to appoint an appropriately qualified successor to carry out the necessary reforms within CASA.

The RAAA called for a new deal for Australia’s aviation industry in light of the poor results of an independent stakeholder relationship survey conducted on the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).

The survey indicated a general dissatisfaction by industry respondents in their overall relationship with the country’s aviation safety regulator. CASA was rated well below par in its ongoing dialogue with industry, consistency of decision making and, in particular, the development of aviation safety regulations.

The survey follows the Government’s Aviation Safety Regulation Review (ASRR) carried out in 2014 which identified a need for CASA to improve its service delivery and relationship with stakeholders. It found that CASA needed cultural change and a new strategic direction.

Commenting on the survey result RAAA Chairman, Jim Davis, said "It is obvious that CASA needs to pick up its game. It is now over 18 months since the ASRR report was adopted by the Government but CASA has a long way to go in achieving its objectives".

He added, "The Government now needs to take action to ensure that the ASRR report’s recommendations are effectively implemented and haven’t been turned into just another bureaucratic box ticking exercise".

The RAAA urges the Government to urgently commission a progress report into the implementation of the ASRR recommendations and to have it carried out by one or more of the original authors of the ASRR report.

It also calls upon the Government to direct CASA to harmonise Australia’s aviation safety regulations with overseas jurisdictions by removing the current red tape and unfair restrictions to competition suffered by Australian industry.

Media Contacts:

Jim Davis: 0408 640 533

Mike Higgins: 0434 608 332


Dated: Friday, 26 August 2016

And of course you can't go past Gobbles new thread SKIDMORE GONE! & the Ferryman's latest Sunday Ramble ...

However for a straight from the heart, cash & no BS summary of the current clusterf#*k that is aviation administration & regulatory oversight in this country, I tip my hat to new honorary IOS member Charlie, who in reply to Binger's above article said.. :

Charles

20 hours ago

I've been involved in aviation as a professional pilot for 36 years and have flown all over the world. CASA have NEVER had the respect of the industry. Operationally it's mostly staffed with career failures who couldn't make it in the industry and so joined the regulator where they a/. Couldn't be fired easily (again, often) and b/. We're guaranteed a good wage and excellent pension. Many are ex RAAF but not the top ones who mostly went from the RAAF to good airline jobs at QF, Cathay etc. The industry then has to cope with ex RAAF or Army aviators/engineers with ZERO comprehension of private enterprise and industry. The rank stupidity and dishonesty the vast majority of industry professionals have experienced/ witnessed at the hands of CASA is breath taking. Any long serving aviation professional could talk for HOURS regaling the audience with CASA horror stories - but they won't because CASA operational staff have long memories and a nasty vindictive streak.

It's an actual legal requirement that if some ex RAAF/Army/Navy pilot who just scraped through in the service and can't get a good job in industry (airline) applies to CASA they MUST be employed. That was told to me by one of the few good ex RAAF pilots who was employed by the regulator before it was called CASA and is now long retired.

All of us who have spent our careers in aviation worked with some of these individuals before they joined CASA and know exactly why they failed and why they harbour such resentment towards the industry that shunned them.

CASA needs to be overhauled root and branch...or shut down and reconstituted from the ground up.

It's not known far and wide as the Cretins Against Sensible Aviation for no reason.

TIME Gentleman & Ladies, TIME!  


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