[Gobbledock]

What we need is the FAA to take a very close look at the Australian shenanigans, and to do this parallel with but not linked to ICAO who should also take a look. They ought to as the iceberg is well and truly exposed -  the myriad of QF issues since 2008, Lockhart, Pel Air, REX vs a coal loader, a bent VA ATR that simply defies belief that it never speared in, and the list goes on. The muppets at CAsA like to talk about 'red flags'. Well there are so many red flags covering the feckin Australian landscape it looks like the crash scene from the Germanwings crash. ICAO and the FAA must be concerned, surely? And if they aren't then we are all doomed. At this point in time it will take a downgrade or a major smoking hole to jolt the bureaucracies out of there coma like condition. But it doesn't have to be that way. We have some very capable people concerned enough to bring things to light. People like Nick and company, Forsythe, Boyd. Then we have potential players such as Skidmore and Manning. All the above mentioned folk are at least mentally stable and don't exhibit sociopathic traits so that is a positive thing. The downside is that the forrests timber is full of ferocious white ants who will not stop until they either run out of wood or they are dealt with swiftly and brutally by an exterminator with size 14 boots.

Unfortunately Australia's run of sheer luck when it comes to not yet having a 300 seat smoking hole will NOT last forever. The Miniscule, as with the Miniscules before him are running a high stakes poker game. Eventually the house will collect.

Below is a worthy episode of Twilight Zone worth watching. Reminds me of the game that CAsA, ATsB and Pumpkin Head are playing;

Tick tock Miniscule tick tock. Dealers call.......