08-09-2016, 07:18 AM
Of course Gobbles no mention that Australia's unique maintenance regulations and the rigid interpretation of them by unqualified incompetent enforcers has lead to a situation where your average LAME now spends more time in front of a computer trying to figure out which rule applies to what torque wrench than actually working on the aircraft.
The cost of building annexes to the hanger to store all the paper work required is a real impediment to investment.
The inability of the regulator to keep up with modern practice and ever changing technology, their firm belief that the manufacturers of aircraft have no idea how they should be maintained because only CAsA knows that, has so reduced the skills base of the very few apprentices that actually finish their tenure that they have to front the computer all the time to google what a torque wrench is.
Of course the rest of the world's regulators fail to recognise that they are completely wrong and refuse to follow CAsA's way of doing things. This is why it costs twice as much to maintain the same aircraft in Australia and our engineers licences are not recognised abroad any more.
The cost of building annexes to the hanger to store all the paper work required is a real impediment to investment.
The inability of the regulator to keep up with modern practice and ever changing technology, their firm belief that the manufacturers of aircraft have no idea how they should be maintained because only CAsA knows that, has so reduced the skills base of the very few apprentices that actually finish their tenure that they have to front the computer all the time to google what a torque wrench is.
Of course the rest of the world's regulators fail to recognise that they are completely wrong and refuse to follow CAsA's way of doing things. This is why it costs twice as much to maintain the same aircraft in Australia and our engineers licences are not recognised abroad any more.