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From ACP, via PRWire:

New England Candidate announces investigation into CASA needed.


Ian Britza, has today announced a policy statement calling for a full review into the Civil Aviation Safety Authority.

Australian Country Party candidate for New England Ian Britza, has today announced a policy statement calling for a full review into the Civil Aviation Safety Authority.

Mr Britza said 'Its just not on that so much red tape can be put in front of our aviation clubs and businesses. This could have a long term affect on general aviation in this Country, something needs to be done."

Details of the statement are:

The Aviation industry is in serious decline because of unnecessary regulation. Australia is witnessing pilots and businesses exiting the industry in increasing numbers.

Because of this decline there will be serious consequences including employment and infrastructure losses, reducing aviation services in Australia. Allowing the decline to continue could see the end of aviation in Australia.

The Australian Country Party advocates for a full investigation and review of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) that would look at over-regulation, allegations of collusion and process stalling and management of the authority which is responsible for major failings in it’s policies and regulation of the aviation industry. Unnecessary policy and regulation are now crippling flying clubs and small businesses, evidenced with aircraft registrations down 53% and general aviation pilots down 34% in the last 10 years.

Flying clubs provide a starting point for people learning to fly and often the first step towards commercial flying, but over-regulation is forcing these clubs and airfields out of business where only multi-national companies would be able to sustain the increasing regulation requirements. This could eventually force all pilot training offshore.

Over regulation includes the following areas just to name a few:

1.Aviation Medical requirements 
2. Air Operator Certificate regulation and compliance
3.Flight school regulation and compliance
4. Aircraft maintenance regulation and compliance

Adopting the United States or New Zealand approach is a step in the right direction. 

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Dear ACP,

Your policy about General Aviation is correct;  the administration of aviation, and GA in particular, is a disaster area of monumental proportions with the loss of thousands of jobs. 

For example the Civil Aviation Safety Authority as the independent regulator has been rewriting the rules for almost 30 years as a never ending make work program costing hundreds of $millions.  The latest tranche of new rules are, quoting CASA Chairman Jeff Boyd (Tamworth GA meeting May 2016), “a mess”. 

Pretty good going for a body with great ‘working’ conditions and a CEO on $600,000 pa. still peddling messages about “getting it right”, “evidence based” decision making and the nonsense about “just culture.”

“Just culture” being code for the following;  CASA believes it is the police, judge, jury and executioner and the normal rule of law and proper justice via the courts don’t apply to CASA in its exercise of unfettered power.
 
With respect, unfortunately your policy for a government “heavy industry” is totally at odds with free enterprise and I have to say extremely retrograde. Nationalisation of industry does not work, this notion has gone by way of the Dodo. One only has to view how hopeless is government at running business of any sort and go back to the wreckage of Communism destroying whole economies to wonder how could you wish for such a step backwards. Protectionism and state run industry is counter to freedom and prosperity, these policies conflict with your other policies of private property rights and less government interference. 

I do hope your policies can be changed because you could become a new force, a new wave of responsible government and freeing us from the old Crown model of top down government dishing out “privileges” which are in fact our rights to live and work as a free people. 

You could look to reining in Can’tberra, near 400,000 on wages 42% higher than average and killing free enterprise in this country.

Your policy of a government controlled heavy industry would add enormously to the bureaucracy, please scotch that one, 

Regards,

Sandy Reith 

Retired General Aviation aircraft and airport owner operator, Chief Flying Instructor etc the whole 9 yards in GA. over 50 years watching in dismay the destruction of a perfectly good industry. 

MTF...P2