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Joining dots on Comardy & the Iron Ring bluff??

First at the end of 2016 we had this from Wingnut:

Comardy's last missive for 2016 -

Besides the usual motherhood (bollocks) weasel words which our aviation safety bureaucrats shamefully continue to put up as fact, the final Comardy missive for the year was surprisingly short, sharp and carried a couple of interesting notes (in bold) of further internal ructions at Aviation House... :

From acting Director of Aviation Safety and CEO, Shane Carmody

I am thoroughly enjoying my time back at CASA and I am looking forward to getting stuck into the work in 2017, assisting the aviation community to deliver the best possible safety outcomes. Since starting in October I have been looking at governance and accountability within CASA and I expect to be making some adjustments in the New Year. I have also been reviewing our performance management and training regimes and will do some fine tuning in those areas as well. I have been impressed by CASA’s strong relationships with the aviation community and encouraged by many positive messages I have received during the last two months.

I wish everyone in Australian aviation a safe and enjoyable Christmas and hope that as many people as possible can get out and go flying over the holiday period. Right across the aviation community there is a great passion for flying and the holidays are a perfect time to express this passion and share it with others. Like many organisations CASA will be taking a short break between Christmas and New Year, although we will have people on standby to meet any urgent aviation safety related requests.

Happy Christmas and best wishes for 2017 from everyone at CASA.
Shane Carmody

  
Couple that with the Gobbles revelation:

More CAsA chess moves....

Roger Weeks gone. Heading to NSW Government. Not sure if Wingnut pushed him or if he read his tea leaves.

Don't bang the door on the way out jerkoff.

To which the Ferryman replied.. :

On the first day of Christmas.

That, GD is good news. One of several semi-professional ‘pilots’’ employed by CASA relieved of duties; no matter why; what matters is he’s is gone. Anyone who ever suffered through one of the ‘Weeks’ professional development class for ATO will be glad not to have to endure more of the same. What business a pompous, jumped up, junior grade instructor ever had being involved in ‘professional' development or, Part 61 even I will never, ever, know or understand.  Thank you Mr Carmody.

Personally; (while Carmody has the axe out), I’d like to see a cull of clan Campbell happening, real soon; there are a couple of others who could be ‘done’ as part of a job lot. We may have to wait until the New Year to see that; but I can wait. We have always said that the carnage would never be seen; not by us, it simply ain’t the way things happen - for obvious reasons.

You know, if Carmody played his cards right; and, the new DAS is the ‘real-deal’ CASA could possibly attract some professionals to help with the heavy lifting; what a difference that would make and how quickly.

Aye well; I’ll tack my wishes on the bottom of my letter to Santa – you never know.

Toot – fare thee well Fuckwit – toot.

All indicate that Comardy is not hanging around and has no issues taking on such historically (30+ years) problematic cultural issues within Fort Fumble...

Verdict - the Acting DAS statement is indeed a positive sign, what will be interesting is whether SC can root out all the scurrying rats early in the New Year...   

Slight retraction from those end of year statements I made... - Why? Well it would appear that SC has hit a roadblock that he is not prepared to sacrifice his future career prospects for...

Reference Three Guinea Pigs thread:

Short, sweet and predictable.

The DAS has courteously, in a short, timely letter responded to the GP3 request for an informal ‘chat’.  For those who wrote the almost letter perfect ‘predictive’ responses, the response was sweet; Choc Frogs all around. There were two which were so close to the actual wording that anything less than a Tim Tam award would be a travesty; well done.

The acting DAS has taken refuge behind the AAT rulings and flat denial; quite rightly mentioning that those decisions have been handed down and CASA is well satisfied with those decisions. The point being completely ‘missed’ is that the complaints which need examination are related directly to the actions of CASA field officers and management decisions made before the AAT hearings; as in the quality of ‘facts and circumstances’ produced as evidence; and, importantly, actions taken subsequent to the hearings. These are the matters which must be tested, not the AAT decisions made on the CASA statements. No matter, the DAS has suggested that the CASA Board is the next stop for the GP3 bus. So be it.

The CASA escape route, defence strategy and party line has been clearly and neatly set out by the DAS for us; those wee holes will be narrowed and the Board contacted.  It is a little early yet to determine a pattern; but, the competition entries to draft the Board response will now be assessed against a tighter rule set. There is after all a gold star and a key to the Tim Tam box at stake.

That’s it, for today at least.

Toot toot.

&..from DDDD_MNFI Chester's thread:

From the Ferryman's latest (above) off the 3 Guinea Pigs thread, in comparison to the Qantas 'bolt' hiccup with it's Q400 fleet, we get a perfect example of the CASA entrenched dichotomy/duplicity/double standards that obviously still exist despite the 'trust' quotient findings of the Forsyth (ASRR) review.

So Comardy's statement in his last missive for 2016...

"..Since starting in October I have been looking at governance and accountability within CASA and I expect to be making some adjustments in the New Year. I have also been reviewing our performance management and training regimes and will do some fine tuning in those areas as well.."

...were obviously either typical bureaucratic obfuscating weasel words  ; or he has realised that the job of taking on the historical record of 'Iron Ring' embuggerances for the better part of 3 decades, is simply too fraught with potential (liability) issues that could prove to be too fiscally and politically 'messy'...

Well if we needed any further evidence that Comardy has been 'gazumped' by the IRON RING, courtesy of an Airmed & Rescue blog, here is the latest propaganda poohtube vid by Dr Aleck to come out of Fort Fumble (Warning: BYOB will be required ):

CASA discusses regulatory philosophy

18 January 2017


The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has released a video outlining its regulatory philosophy. General manager of legal affairs Jonathan Aleck explains in the video how CASA operates. He comments: “If we don’t demonstrate by example what it means to be a responsible regulator, it’s going to be that bit more difficult for us to expect that operators are going to demonstrate by example what it means to be a safe operator.”

Please God help our industry


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