Commonsense and detail reform measures falling on the deaf ears of a failed regulator.
The failure goes back to the design of the administration of an important arm of government back in 1988 by effectively deleting aviation out of Departmental and Ministerial control.
Unfortunately the Parliament overlooked the important Westminster democratic principle of Ministerial responsibility being an essential ingredient of government. The idea that government is responsive to the electorate and responsible for its governance. Think of a Department and its Minister as being as close as possible to the consequences of its actions and accountable through the ballot box. Imperfect system but the best devised and refined over hundreds of years.
The independent corporation of CASA is in law an entity that can be sued. Unlike a Department of government. This means that this entity is inclined to proceed independently to protect itself, and human nature as it is may well increase its importance leading to high salaries, fees for service for new permissions and so on. Sorry to say but CASA exhibits all such elements in spades.
All of us in the aviation community should be lobbying for aviation to be administered by a Department of Government.![[Image: attachment.php?aid=439]](https://auntypru.com/forum/attachment.php?aid=439)
The failure goes back to the design of the administration of an important arm of government back in 1988 by effectively deleting aviation out of Departmental and Ministerial control.
Unfortunately the Parliament overlooked the important Westminster democratic principle of Ministerial responsibility being an essential ingredient of government. The idea that government is responsive to the electorate and responsible for its governance. Think of a Department and its Minister as being as close as possible to the consequences of its actions and accountable through the ballot box. Imperfect system but the best devised and refined over hundreds of years.
The independent corporation of CASA is in law an entity that can be sued. Unlike a Department of government. This means that this entity is inclined to proceed independently to protect itself, and human nature as it is may well increase its importance leading to high salaries, fees for service for new permissions and so on. Sorry to say but CASA exhibits all such elements in spades.
All of us in the aviation community should be lobbying for aviation to be administered by a Department of Government.