Not good enough.
None of it, not by a long shot if the rumour floating about proves true. Now it is only hearsay, - for the moment - and I will be getting a look at the real article before too long and should be able to let you all see the problem. The minutes from meetings which took place in Canberra recently (you know the ones) have been distributed to the ‘interested parties’ to be met by howls of protest. The minutes have been tinkered with, work-shopped and diluted to best reflect what the powers that be want the government to see. So say those who know the truth. I believe a much closer to reality version is being drafted as a counter measure. We shall see.
It’s appalling when you think about it. The AOPA crew wanted to have someone take the minutes; not acceptable. OK, then we want to record it; nope none of that either. So now the AOPA crew must rely on collective memory version, which, funnily enough, would not stand a cat in Hell’s chance of surviving a challenge. Lesson One.
It is not only disgusting, but dishonest. If ever there was a more perfect example why reform of the regulator must happen before anything else, I don’t know what it is. An executive, senior panel from a government safety department all prepared to swear that the minutes they provided are accurate. Lesson 2.
The wriggle is of course, the minutes provided are probably ‘accurate’, as far as they go. Now AOPA must prove the missing parts do, in fact, exist and the ‘editing’ done flawed. Lesson 3.
I cannot begin to express my contempt for this action nor my disgust in a minister who will read those minutes and believe them. Not that Darren will ever read ‘em; I doubt he can even tie his own boot laces.
Aye, Perfidy thy name is CASA (ably assisted by ‘the department’).
MTF a racing certainty - if I can winnow the truth of it.
None of it, not by a long shot if the rumour floating about proves true. Now it is only hearsay, - for the moment - and I will be getting a look at the real article before too long and should be able to let you all see the problem. The minutes from meetings which took place in Canberra recently (you know the ones) have been distributed to the ‘interested parties’ to be met by howls of protest. The minutes have been tinkered with, work-shopped and diluted to best reflect what the powers that be want the government to see. So say those who know the truth. I believe a much closer to reality version is being drafted as a counter measure. We shall see.
It’s appalling when you think about it. The AOPA crew wanted to have someone take the minutes; not acceptable. OK, then we want to record it; nope none of that either. So now the AOPA crew must rely on collective memory version, which, funnily enough, would not stand a cat in Hell’s chance of surviving a challenge. Lesson One.
It is not only disgusting, but dishonest. If ever there was a more perfect example why reform of the regulator must happen before anything else, I don’t know what it is. An executive, senior panel from a government safety department all prepared to swear that the minutes they provided are accurate. Lesson 2.
The wriggle is of course, the minutes provided are probably ‘accurate’, as far as they go. Now AOPA must prove the missing parts do, in fact, exist and the ‘editing’ done flawed. Lesson 3.
I cannot begin to express my contempt for this action nor my disgust in a minister who will read those minutes and believe them. Not that Darren will ever read ‘em; I doubt he can even tie his own boot laces.
Aye, Perfidy thy name is CASA (ably assisted by ‘the department’).
MTF a racing certainty - if I can winnow the truth of it.