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Windsor has it, can BJ steal it away?

Dear Barnaby. Please, leave Darren at home to browse his ‘selfies’.  Bring Fletcher and Fawcett; then relax.  Enjoy the event, watch these two masters go to work and revel the tangible rise in both your credibility and popularity.  Then fix up the Act; adopt the Kiwi or USA regulations and leave the rest to us and Fawcett.  It really is that simple.

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Love it and spot on Ferryman...

Follow up to the AMROBA newsflash, today KC published their latest newsletter - Volume 13 Issue 4 April — 2016 - which also provided a link for the latest (just released) TAAAF Policy:

1. TAAAF Policy Document – 2016.

The Australian Aviation Associations Forum have released its policy document with fully costed savings and recommendations that government should take into consideration now and post-election. 2016 is make or break for general aviation and these policies support a future GA that will prosper.

The major policies of this document are:

1. A National Aviation Strategy in partnership with industry with a focus on safety, job creation, and growth.

2. Modernisation of the Civil Aviation Act and alignment to international standards.

3. Sale of Airservices and creation of an Aviation Future Fund.

4. Urgent policy action on aviation education and training.

5. New approaches to general aviation, manufacturing, security and regional aviation.

There are many issues that directly affects your future being proposed. All aspects of general aviation has been covered.

It is recommended reading to all members and feel free to pass it to your local council that controls your airport. Send it to local government, State and Federal members even if they get more than one copy. All people working in this industry should read this proposal.

Download a copy and place it in a position for all to read. Link on front page.

KC also again promotes the importance of the May 6 Tamworth GA meeting:

2. Tamworth GA meeting with Joyce/Chester May 6th

AMROBA congratulates Ben Morgan, Aviation Advertiser, for arranging the meeting at Tamworth that has led to the GA meeting with the National Party – DPM Barnaby Joyce, Minister Darren Chester and CASA Chairman Jeff Boyd. Everyone in GA that can get there should attend. Aviation needs a new political direction/policy and many changes to the Civil Aviation Act if we are to get back to a natural growth industry.

Meeting link to our ‘Breaking News’ article on this meeting. Link: Tamworth Meeting.

The last meeting in Tamworth could have been a failure except it raised enough issues for DPM Barnaby Joyce to agree to another meeting – this is an election year. Nationals needs the support of the aviation industry and we need their support. Two major issues confront general aviation:

1. Repeal of a regulatory system that, since 1990, has lost over 100,000 jobs. It is time to reverse these effects by adopting the USA regulatory system for GA.

2. Promulgate the USA regulatory system as Aviation Safety Standards under Sec 9 (1) © of the Civil Aviation Act. (no strict liability clauses);

a. Any amendment proposed by industry or CASA needs industry sector(s) consensus.

b. Regulations be amended to support the Aviation Safety Standards;

c. All changes be completed within the next two years.

Show Joyce, Chester and Boyd that the GA industry has had enough and change must happen within the next 2 years.

 
KC then seeks to explain the draconian implications of currently contravening the Act:

3. Consequences if you do not comply with an Act?

The Civil Aviation Act has some severe penalties if a person or entity does not comply with a provision of the Act but there is no penalty if CASA does not comply or meet their obligations under the Act. The Morris Report changed CASA’s Functions:

3.30 The [Morris] committee considers that CASAs primary or core functions should be:

(a) to establish aviation safety standards;

(b) to issue licences, certificates or permits to those who satisfy CASA that they can meet the standards established under (a) above or in the Act; and

© to supervise compliance with standards and take appropriate action for non-compliance.

Obviously public servants can ignore Act obligations if you are CASA. CASA Functions are ignored. The following are what a few of us have scored CASA compliance: (continue to read page 3)..

...CASA has failed to perform an obligation to promulgate the "foundations of aviation safety" and works against the intention of Parliament. If there has been a failure to perform an obligation imposed by legislation, quite apart from possible consequences for the office-holder, there may be an issue as to the consequences of that breach of the law for others. i.e. no clear/concise aviation safety standards.


From the Attorney Generals website:

"Under Australia’s Constitution, the Parliament can make laws in the form of Acts of the Parliament or it can choose to delegate its power to make laws on particular matters to other persons and bodies. For guidance on which powers may be delegated, see the Legislation Handbook. Laws made under delegation are known as delegated, subordinate or secondary legislation. They include: (a) regulations made under an Act of the Parliament; and (b) rules; and © determinations; and (d) declarations.

Act proposed ‘Aviation Safety Standards’ would be "rules" promulgated by CASA that provide the foundation of aviation safety throughout Australia. This foundation has never been implemented as was the intention of the 1995 Act changes.

Example: If you held a certificate or licence issued by CASA and had intentionally refused to implement a safety system in your business for the last 21 years you would have been deemed as not a fit or proper person to hold a certificate or licence. Enough said.

  
Finally KC acknowledges the AOPA Project Eureka and the symmetry with TAAAF Aviation Policy document:

4. Project Eureka document

AOPA’s project Eureka has similarities with the TAAAF policy document because they contributed to its development in the early stages. The AOPA document is in the same vein as the TAAAF document. The current and proposed regulatory system is the prime reason for GA decline. Basically, the current regulator is the reason why hundreds of jobs have disappeared out of aviation.

What this document and the TAAAF policy document highlights is the sad state that general aviation is now in and the sole cause is the totally unworkable aviation requirements that continue to reduce jobs.

The discontent with CASA imposed requirements is bubbling to the top and industry participants have had enough.

The recent "pilot" based regulations are totally unworkable in this country but so are the requirements implemented for all sectors so far.

Application of Aviation Safety Standards adopted from the FARs for general aviation will keep a safe aviation system but with global standards at much lower costs. Unlike the FARs, CASA has an aversion against performance based regulations. Europe is just starting to realise performance based requirements are the future.

 
As usual KC & the AMROBA crew well done & see you in the Tamworth Corral...

Remember KISS & "United we conquer divided we fall"

Quotes from Dick Smith & Tony Windsor, via the Northern Daily Leader:

“It’s almost at the point where it’s not saveable, but I’m hoping Barnaby will be ruthless and fire a few people and put some good people in. If they do nothing in the next four or five months, I’m going to come up and support Tony Windsor.”

Mr Windsor said industry representatives needed to find points of unity and use them to advance their position.


“It is time that all interested parties sit at the table to develop workable solutions to enable this vital industry to prosper, and crucially, to stimulate regional development,” he said.

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