09-20-2021, 02:01 AM
Allow me to be what the Americans call a “Monday morning quarterback”.
You opine: “. I cannot believe how any 'minister' charged with the welfare of this nation can sit back, have tea and jam biscuits while watching an industry being destroyed - from the inside out; by the very people responsible for it's well being.”
But borrowing from my neurolinguistic training, the Minister and Senior Bureaucrats believe that they ARE advancing the nations welfare by strangling the aviation industry, at least the honest ones believe it. They really do. So do judges and the AAT as evidenced by their numerous judgements in favour of our beloved regulator where the beak writes words to the effect that: “We find that public safety is so absolutely utterly and completely important that even if CASA has broken the law a trifle by garrotting the plaintiffs wife and children that public interest demands no less.” Case dismissed! I am told that in the case of Angel Flight for example, the good judge ruled that CASA need not base any of its regulations on safety evidence. CASAs mere opinion was enough. Such is the public fear of aviation…….and aviators.
So what IS the perception of aviation in Canberra? My suspicion is as follows. First there is the RAAF. They keep us from being overrun by China. They fly big shiny jets that cost so much money they must be very good. They also make lots of noise which impresses the public. Then there are the airlines. They also have big shiny jets that cost a lot of money. They also serve us drinks and take us to nice places like Venice and London. They also take the public to places like Bali. Obviously essential.
So now we come to general aviation. Rickety decades old, dirty, smelly unsafe aircraft that get in the way of the RAAF and Qantas by presuming to occupy the same airspace. Furthermore, they insist on needing airports which for some strange reason are situated on prime development land that is worth a fortune. Then there are those rich tax dodging un-Australian creeps who actually have the temerity to own and fly their own aircraft!
……and these little aircraft owners have the temerity to bleat about regulations under which her Majesty’s Government charitably allows them to fly? I mean, who do they think they are? Furthermore everybody knows that Australia can’t build or maintain aircraft, we were taught that at ANU, therefore why do we need anything called an aviation “industry” let alone caring for its well being? It’s like talking about the croquette “industry” or car detailers pontificating about road safety. Is it any wonder that a senior bureaucrat allegedly called pilots “un caught criminals”? Pilots are one step above child molesters in Canberra’s hierarchy.
Now if by some stretch the GA industry could portray itself as primarily feminine and that there were significant involvement of indigenous, differently abled, LGBTIQ and immigrant communities then we should find politicians and bureaucrats falling over themselves to help, however that observation is bordering on self pity..
You opine: “. I cannot believe how any 'minister' charged with the welfare of this nation can sit back, have tea and jam biscuits while watching an industry being destroyed - from the inside out; by the very people responsible for it's well being.”
But borrowing from my neurolinguistic training, the Minister and Senior Bureaucrats believe that they ARE advancing the nations welfare by strangling the aviation industry, at least the honest ones believe it. They really do. So do judges and the AAT as evidenced by their numerous judgements in favour of our beloved regulator where the beak writes words to the effect that: “We find that public safety is so absolutely utterly and completely important that even if CASA has broken the law a trifle by garrotting the plaintiffs wife and children that public interest demands no less.” Case dismissed! I am told that in the case of Angel Flight for example, the good judge ruled that CASA need not base any of its regulations on safety evidence. CASAs mere opinion was enough. Such is the public fear of aviation…….and aviators.
So what IS the perception of aviation in Canberra? My suspicion is as follows. First there is the RAAF. They keep us from being overrun by China. They fly big shiny jets that cost so much money they must be very good. They also make lots of noise which impresses the public. Then there are the airlines. They also have big shiny jets that cost a lot of money. They also serve us drinks and take us to nice places like Venice and London. They also take the public to places like Bali. Obviously essential.
So now we come to general aviation. Rickety decades old, dirty, smelly unsafe aircraft that get in the way of the RAAF and Qantas by presuming to occupy the same airspace. Furthermore, they insist on needing airports which for some strange reason are situated on prime development land that is worth a fortune. Then there are those rich tax dodging un-Australian creeps who actually have the temerity to own and fly their own aircraft!
……and these little aircraft owners have the temerity to bleat about regulations under which her Majesty’s Government charitably allows them to fly? I mean, who do they think they are? Furthermore everybody knows that Australia can’t build or maintain aircraft, we were taught that at ANU, therefore why do we need anything called an aviation “industry” let alone caring for its well being? It’s like talking about the croquette “industry” or car detailers pontificating about road safety. Is it any wonder that a senior bureaucrat allegedly called pilots “un caught criminals”? Pilots are one step above child molesters in Canberra’s hierarchy.
Now if by some stretch the GA industry could portray itself as primarily feminine and that there were significant involvement of indigenous, differently abled, LGBTIQ and immigrant communities then we should find politicians and bureaucrats falling over themselves to help, however that observation is bordering on self pity..