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Them's that have it...

10 planes. Even worse!!

I always love the soft wording of their statements; 'administrative error' and 'timely manner'! Considering that CAsA are never to shy to put a small operator out of business for a pilot breaking wind in the flight deck or for an Engineer forgetting to sharpen his pencil, I wonder what they will do to the Rat?? Yep, I thought that too. Nothing!

Pinocchio Gobson the bearded bugle, Wingnut, Elaine Joyce and dopey Darren  will be having a confab as we speak, trotting out the wet lettuce leaf along with a light hearted media statement and then off to the Hellfire Club with QF management for a beer, dog collar and a spanking! Then all go home as there is nothing to see.

'Bolts, what bolts'?

TICK TOCK

...them's that don't...  

Short, sweet and predictable.

The DAS has courteously, in a short, timely letter responded to the GP3 request for an informal ‘chat’.  For those who wrote the almost letter perfect ‘predictive’ responses, the response was sweet; Choc Frogs all around. There were two which were so close to the actual wording that anything less than a Tim Tam award would be a travesty; well done.

The acting DAS has taken refuge behind the AAT rulings and flat denial; quite rightly mentioning that those decisions have been handed down and CASA is well satisfied with those decisions. The point being completely ‘missed’ is that the complaints which need examination are related directly to the actions of CASA field officers and management decisions made before the AAT hearings; as in the quality of ‘facts and circumstances’ produced as evidence; and, importantly, actions taken subsequent to the hearings. These are the matters which must be tested, not the AAT decisions made on the CASA statements. No matter, the DAS has suggested that the CASA Board is the next stop for the GP3 bus. So be it.

The CASA escape route, defence strategy and party line has been clearly and neatly set out by the DAS for us; those wee holes will be narrowed and the Board contacted.  It is a little early yet to determine a pattern; but, the competition entries to draft the Board response will now be assessed against a tighter rule set. There is after all a gold star and a key to the Tim Tam box at stake.

That’s it, for today at least.

Toot toot.

Unconscionable behaviour, backed up by their senior manager.

What a bunch of slimy grubs they are.

They may be completely incompetent with anything to do with Safety, aviation or regulation but nobody can say they're not expert at slithering around ethics, probity, truth or the law.

Scum the lot of them.

Sir Thorny;

They may be completely incompetent with anything to do with Safety, aviation or regulation but nobody can say they're not expert at slithering around ethics, probity, truth or the law.

I couldn't agree more. If they spent just a fraction of the time that they spent chasing, bullying, and stitching up good honest people and put that into proper safety oversight, robust systems, quality assurance and proper regulations we would have a fantastic aviation industry in Australia, not the busted shell and steaming pile of shit that we have.

From the Ferryman's latest (above) off the 3 Guinea Pigs thread, in comparison to the Qantas 'bolt' hiccup with it's Q400 fleet, we get a perfect example of the CASA entrenched dichotomy/duplicity/double standards that obviously still exist despite the 'trust' quotient findings of the Forsyth (ASRR) review.

So Comardy's statement in his last missive for 2016...

"..Since starting in October I have been looking at governance and accountability within CASA and I expect to be making some adjustments in the New Year. I have also been reviewing our performance management and training regimes and will do some fine tuning in those areas as well.."

...were obviously either typical bureaucratic obfuscating weasel words  ; or he has realised that the job of taking on the historical record of 'Iron Ring' embuggerances for the better part of 3 decades, is simply too fraught with potential (liability) issues that could prove to be too fiscally and politically 'messy'...

MTF...P2

Ps Word of warning Wingnut - I get the impression that "K" is not of the mind to 'forgive & forget' with this one. So I would suggest that if your contemplating comfortably moving up the gravy train into M&M's possie you will not want to be in the Acting DAS position a minute longer than is necessary, because pretty soon the Ferryman will come knocking...