03-24-2017, 04:14 PM
Minister's Statement of Expectations; more thoughts.
Firstly the word "expectations", this should be changed to "directions". Our system requires that government governs and the Westminster system falls down if Ministers shirk their responsibilities, plainly this is precisely the case in Australian aviation.
His bunch of generalisations are valid until 2019, so where are the sanctions if the Board and the silly titled "Director of Air Safety" fail to live up to the Minister's "expectations"? The whole lot of which was obviously not written by the Minister.
The process is not a lame duck, it's a dead duck and it beats me that intelligent people could continue to promulgate and attempt to support this hopeless model.
There is however one way which could help if the Board had any guts at all and that is to instruct the "DAS" to immediately create a recognition of the NZ rules by way of the Minister's expectation of 4G, mutual recognition. The Trans Tasmam Mutual Recognition Treaty already exists and could be extended fully to General Aviation. Can you imagine the changes in CASA as practically all of Aussie GA began migrating to the NZ system? Competition would definitely spoil the CASA party.
Firstly the word "expectations", this should be changed to "directions". Our system requires that government governs and the Westminster system falls down if Ministers shirk their responsibilities, plainly this is precisely the case in Australian aviation.
His bunch of generalisations are valid until 2019, so where are the sanctions if the Board and the silly titled "Director of Air Safety" fail to live up to the Minister's "expectations"? The whole lot of which was obviously not written by the Minister.
The process is not a lame duck, it's a dead duck and it beats me that intelligent people could continue to promulgate and attempt to support this hopeless model.
There is however one way which could help if the Board had any guts at all and that is to instruct the "DAS" to immediately create a recognition of the NZ rules by way of the Minister's expectation of 4G, mutual recognition. The Trans Tasmam Mutual Recognition Treaty already exists and could be extended fully to General Aviation. Can you imagine the changes in CASA as practically all of Aussie GA began migrating to the NZ system? Competition would definitely spoil the CASA party.