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AMROBA March Newsletter: Volume 19 Issue 3 March (2022)

2022 – INTERNATIONALISATION

Time has run out, government must change the process to internationalise Australia’s civil
aviation engineering disciplines of design, maintenance and manufacturing to open the Australian
civil aviation engineering fields to compete in the global aviation markets in their own right.

This will create jobs that the real potential of this engineering industry can add to the workforce.

When we once again have over 1500 directly supervised flight training facilities and over 1000
directly supervised maintenance organisations we will know that we have succeeded in
implementing (adopted) safety regulations and practices that also enable internationalisation.

We Trained Hard. . . . . .

but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be
reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by
reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while
producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.” - PETRONIUS: 65 A.D.

1. Face the Facts – CARs/CASRs have collapsed civil aviation in Australia.

CAA/CASA does not have any vision for a safe and viable civil aviation non-airline industry.
AMROBA does, see item 2.

Civil Aviation Regulations and now Civil Aviation Safety Regulations are strangling the industry.
Government Acts and Regulations developed since the decision to make CAA/CASA an
independent government agency has created government jobs & destroyed civil jobs. 

2. The Big Engineering Picture - Internationalisation

Government may not have an understanding of where the civil aviation engineering fields in
Australia want to be in the near future but AMROBA and its members do. Internationalisation of
our engineering products and services in their own rights. Internationalisation needs adoption of
the FAR non-airline regulatory system by Australia and reduce red tape by 50%. 

3. Aviation Safety – How Engineering Skills Keep it Safe

Civil aviation engineering is not dissimilar to other forms of transport and the safety culture that
has been imbedded over the last 100 odd years is not dependent on legislation and regulations that
mostly add red tape that does not value add to safety. 

4. Training – Bring Back Trade Training Career Pathways

Federal Education must be made responsible to provide trade training based on the ICAO AME
trade training system. CASA collapsed the AME trade training in Australia when it took over the
NVET trade training organisations and replaced with licencing knowledge training under Part 147.

Solution: Make the Federal Education Department responsible under the Annex to provide trade
training at non Part 147 trade training schools based on ICAO AME training standards. These ICAO
training standards were the basis of our trade training system well before Part 66/147.

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