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 QON for the miniscule... - Part I  

Reference Ferryman M&M post:

A classic – in the true sense.

CASA – “Description: The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) requires the services of a suitably qualified specialist or team of specialists independent of CASA to undertake a review of the latest fatigue rules for operators and pilots (CAO 48.1 Instrument 2013).”

Well held P2, good catch Sir. This is indeed so very much the ‘real deal’ so typical of our “air safety” agencies, particularly CASA, that it should be included in the politicians little book of ‘How not to get conned’. The CASA exercise highlights so much of the endless river of money which disappears every year down the CASA plughole.

CASA – “The fatigue rules for air operators and pilots have been updated as part of the CASA’s regulation reform program that seeks to align Australia with international standards, improve aviation safety, address known risks, and maintain our reputation for safety in aviation. The review will provide an informed basis on which CASA will complete the implementation of the new fatigue rules in the context of the current international and domestic regulatory environments.”

Got that? really got it? Good then we shall have a quick Q&A for the miniscule, just to make sure. We will even allow the questions to be ‘taken on notice’ a QoN if you will.

1) How many of our close neighbour countries have ICAO compliant fatigue rules in place which have been ‘satisfactory’ to all parties?

2) What was the total cost to those countries to achieve this desirable outcome?

3) In which year did industry request that the simple, standard industry exemption to CAO 48 be included in law?

4) In which year did the option of using FRMS or CAO 48 become acceptable?

5) In which year did this practice become not acceptable?

6) How much, so far, in total, has the abortive CAO 48.1 cost the tax payer?

7) Do we have a ‘new’, reformed, better, safer, fairer fatigue rule in existence today?

8) In which year did CASA employ two internationally recognised Human Factors/ fatigue specialists?

9) In which year did the said ‘specialists’ leave CASA in high dudgeon (and, for a bonus point) can you tell us why?

10) Can you nominate the two highly qualified ‘specialists’ most likely to return, at highly expensive consultant rates; to complete the task?

We do have the answers to these questions minister; do you? Perhaps Wingnut can help you out. No hurry with QoN – Estimates is a while off yet. Tick tock, tick tock.

Carmody is doing a magnificent job; pouring recycled oil onto the ministers troubled duck pond. Patching, papering, white-washing and dodging every bullet without changing, reforming or amending any thing. Well, some people can be fooled – sometimes. It is one thing to sooth the troubled ministerial breast; but to tame an angry beast is quite another – you need to play the right tune.  Spin away, roll the dice – delay and defer for another $100 millions on ‘reform’; obfuscate and hide behind manufactured safeguards – little ‘we’ can do about that.  But sooner or later, someone will use these travesties to decimate the government which allowed the cost of doing nothing, except looking good to destroy an industry.

"I am disgraced, impeach'd and baffled here,
Pierced to the soul with slander's venom'd spear,
The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood
Which breathed this poison"


Toot toot.

Dear miniscule 4D,

I am pretty sure that your faithful puppet-masters at the Department and indeed Comardy himself, will be able to supply the answers for PAIN QON 1 thru 6. However they maybe a bit sketchy and hesitant to provide the necessary intel/research for your minions to join the dots for AQON 7 thru to 10.

Therefore in the interest of transparency and industry 'olive branch' diplomacy, I have volunteered to be the BRB intermediary to help your minions unimpeded access to all the dots necessary to answer QON 7-10...

Yours P2. 

To begin, unfortunately I will have to re-visit parts of previous Aviation Safety WOFTAM Inquiries/Reviews, including the infamous (still ongoing) Pel-Air (cover-up) Investigation/Inquiry/Review/Re-investigation/Clusterduck...  

First up some handy refresher references... :

1.

Who was it that once said...

"...In the end it's only the pilot who can decide whether he is fatigued or he or she is fatigued and unable to conduct a flight..."

Video: Interview with John McCormick, Director Aviation Safety, CASA (Four Corners)

2.

Pilot training and airline safety; and Consideration of the Transport Safety Investigation Amendment (Incident Reports) Bill 2010

23 June 2011

Tabled document received from Senator Xenophon on 18 March 2011 in Canberra. Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) report titled on 'Special Fatigue Audit: Jetstar';(PDF 5210KB) 

 
3.

Aviation Accident Investigations

19 CASA Special Audit of Pel-Air Fatigue Risk Management System, received 10 October 2012;(PDF 5428KB)

4.

Supplementary Submission(PDF 1183KB) 

5.

16 Internal ATSB email- reviewer wanting to look more closely at FRMS and re-interview pilots (dated 24 May 2012), received 10 October 2012;(PDF 535KB)

MTF?- Definitely...P2