05-04-2017, 07:24 PM
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Will CASA tremble – Now Dick has spoken.
Bollocks they will – (Steam ON GD, now). Well, I’m glad to see they’ve finally caught on to one of the greatest mistakes Australian aviation has allowed to happen. Actually there have been four grave mistakes and one serious error made in the last half year. To wit:-IMO
1) Boyd should have been fired after Tamworth. His CASA supporting rhetoric and refusal to engage further with Martin spoke volumes. The man has been, like it not, drawn into the circle of influence and convinced that the ‘party line’ is the best, indeed the only way for CASA to do business. Like he’d know the difference; even his operation was a Casaphile’s playground. He hid in the hanger and said ‘yes’ to all, letting the fools and charlatans run the outfit. ‘Not qualified’; out of his depth, was the BRB summation when he got the job; proven correct, several times over now.
2) Not hiring Mike Smith the first time was an error – look at what we got instead. Two years of leaderless window dressing and candy floss PR. This while Part 61 and 66 and other travesties were brought on line and into law. Costs and compliance onus off the charts – why? no reason for it, except CASA like things just the way they are, oh; that and taking the Mickey out of the Senate committee of course. Now we have a top drawer bureaucrat to do that; ain’t that grand. Children, what say you?
3) Then we have J Aleck Esq still in what the Americans call the cat-bird seat. This whispering power behind many thrones is well past his use by date and a menace to those who would change the way CASA does business. Last survivor of the golden west mafia club, fixer of aberrations like Lockhart river, author of the ICAO ‘differences, bear leader of the infamous McComic. Take him and his tight little band of followers out of the game and reform of the regulator may, just, stand a fighting chance.
Sunny TB – “I know one company trying to get an aircraft on their AOC, got charged 16 hours for an FOI to check that a manufacturer supplied, FAA approved QRH, exactly matched the content of the manufacturers, FAA approved flight manual.”
4) More than any other, this FOI and his ‘mates’ typify, exactly, why industry has no faith and less trust in ‘CASA’. Sunny thorny quotes but one tiny part of the long list of ‘facts and circumstances’ which may be cited. Not that those will ever be heard, let alone addressed. There have been numerous complaints, proven breeches of procedure, protocol and law brought against this man; historical fact. This FOI was brought out of the pencil sharpening cupboard, having been placed in there after some serious complaints had been acted on by wise heads, by non other than McComic. This simply because it was deemed that anyone who upset so many industry people must be doing the job ‘right’. Fraud, deception, perjury, a vicious temper and a total, god like belief that only ‘he’ knows how aircraft operations should be conducted are foremost among many charges which could be laid at this mans door. He and his ‘mates’ should have been fired along with Chambers; just for sheer incompetence if nothing else, collusion and guilty by association aside. No libel or slander there; I can and am prepared to prove in any court every word true. Inutile lad, ‘the’ sterling example of why reform of CASA at FOI level is absolutely essential. Of course ‘we’ are not to criticise this doyen, this expert assessor of jet operations, lest his mates whisperings prevent a hiring; or, threaten to slow up an AOC approval; or, let it be quietly known that all things are possible; provided, no complaints are made. The Darwin crowd did and got away with it too.
Oh! Did I loose my equanimity, for just a moment? – OK; ten minutes in the sin bin then, Mea Culpa. I’ll come quietly officer, but I am weary of this everlasting farce.
Selah.
Bollocks they will – (Steam ON GD, now). Well, I’m glad to see they’ve finally caught on to one of the greatest mistakes Australian aviation has allowed to happen. Actually there have been four grave mistakes and one serious error made in the last half year. To wit:-IMO
1) Boyd should have been fired after Tamworth. His CASA supporting rhetoric and refusal to engage further with Martin spoke volumes. The man has been, like it not, drawn into the circle of influence and convinced that the ‘party line’ is the best, indeed the only way for CASA to do business. Like he’d know the difference; even his operation was a Casaphile’s playground. He hid in the hanger and said ‘yes’ to all, letting the fools and charlatans run the outfit. ‘Not qualified’; out of his depth, was the BRB summation when he got the job; proven correct, several times over now.
2) Not hiring Mike Smith the first time was an error – look at what we got instead. Two years of leaderless window dressing and candy floss PR. This while Part 61 and 66 and other travesties were brought on line and into law. Costs and compliance onus off the charts – why? no reason for it, except CASA like things just the way they are, oh; that and taking the Mickey out of the Senate committee of course. Now we have a top drawer bureaucrat to do that; ain’t that grand. Children, what say you?
3) Then we have J Aleck Esq still in what the Americans call the cat-bird seat. This whispering power behind many thrones is well past his use by date and a menace to those who would change the way CASA does business. Last survivor of the golden west mafia club, fixer of aberrations like Lockhart river, author of the ICAO ‘differences, bear leader of the infamous McComic. Take him and his tight little band of followers out of the game and reform of the regulator may, just, stand a fighting chance.
Sunny TB – “I know one company trying to get an aircraft on their AOC, got charged 16 hours for an FOI to check that a manufacturer supplied, FAA approved QRH, exactly matched the content of the manufacturers, FAA approved flight manual.”
4) More than any other, this FOI and his ‘mates’ typify, exactly, why industry has no faith and less trust in ‘CASA’. Sunny thorny quotes but one tiny part of the long list of ‘facts and circumstances’ which may be cited. Not that those will ever be heard, let alone addressed. There have been numerous complaints, proven breeches of procedure, protocol and law brought against this man; historical fact. This FOI was brought out of the pencil sharpening cupboard, having been placed in there after some serious complaints had been acted on by wise heads, by non other than McComic. This simply because it was deemed that anyone who upset so many industry people must be doing the job ‘right’. Fraud, deception, perjury, a vicious temper and a total, god like belief that only ‘he’ knows how aircraft operations should be conducted are foremost among many charges which could be laid at this mans door. He and his ‘mates’ should have been fired along with Chambers; just for sheer incompetence if nothing else, collusion and guilty by association aside. No libel or slander there; I can and am prepared to prove in any court every word true. Inutile lad, ‘the’ sterling example of why reform of CASA at FOI level is absolutely essential. Of course ‘we’ are not to criticise this doyen, this expert assessor of jet operations, lest his mates whisperings prevent a hiring; or, threaten to slow up an AOC approval; or, let it be quietly known that all things are possible; provided, no complaints are made. The Darwin crowd did and got away with it too.
Oh! Did I loose my equanimity, for just a moment? – OK; ten minutes in the sin bin then, Mea Culpa. I’ll come quietly officer, but I am weary of this everlasting farce.
Selah.