03-21-2019, 07:51 PM
ICAO, OR NOT TO ICAO. WHICH ONE SHALL IT BE?
P2, nice piece of investigative work mate. Isn’t it ironic that CAsA, who love to quote ICAO standards when it suits them, are happy to ‘pick and choose’ which ICAO SARP’s they will align themselves with? Ultimately CAsA are accountable for ASA, and in turn ARFFS. The ICAO standard, for all intents and purposes, is the one that should be complied with. Otherwise, why does Australia have a seat on the ICAO panel, why do our alphabet soup executive trough dwellers spend a couple of hundred thousand dollars each year attending ICAO conferences, summits, seminars, meetings, workshops and apple bobbing contests?
And why is that the Australian Government is pissing about with budgets, shaving manpower here and there at an airport, not wanting to spend on ARFF services which is a life saving PREVENTATIVE measure, when they give billions to other third world nations, a half billion to a Barrier Reef organisation, billions in wars and on armaments, and $50b on some antiquated Subs so as to save the arse of one Minister who is now retiring? Yet an extra person here and there and life saving infrastructure is skimped out on?
The whole scenario is a joke. The 20 year Infrastructure Head Murky MrDak has set Australian aviation back 20 years. No wonder he changed departments. Still influential, but in a different department.
Too little too late.
Tick Tock
P2, nice piece of investigative work mate. Isn’t it ironic that CAsA, who love to quote ICAO standards when it suits them, are happy to ‘pick and choose’ which ICAO SARP’s they will align themselves with? Ultimately CAsA are accountable for ASA, and in turn ARFFS. The ICAO standard, for all intents and purposes, is the one that should be complied with. Otherwise, why does Australia have a seat on the ICAO panel, why do our alphabet soup executive trough dwellers spend a couple of hundred thousand dollars each year attending ICAO conferences, summits, seminars, meetings, workshops and apple bobbing contests?
And why is that the Australian Government is pissing about with budgets, shaving manpower here and there at an airport, not wanting to spend on ARFF services which is a life saving PREVENTATIVE measure, when they give billions to other third world nations, a half billion to a Barrier Reef organisation, billions in wars and on armaments, and $50b on some antiquated Subs so as to save the arse of one Minister who is now retiring? Yet an extra person here and there and life saving infrastructure is skimped out on?
The whole scenario is a joke. The 20 year Infrastructure Head Murky MrDak has set Australian aviation back 20 years. No wonder he changed departments. Still influential, but in a different department.
Too little too late.
Tick Tock