02-12-2022, 06:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-12-2022, 06:29 AM by thorn bird.)
Wombat annunciates it so well Sandy, it simply defies common sense.
We made a start, way back when, to align with the US FAR's. A group that included industry representatives produced some excellent legislation, then suddenly we changed horses after the starting gun had gone and went for EASA alignment. Which of course didn't happen either, EASA reg's were a disaster, proved virtually unworkable and largely had to be rewritten to better align with US reg's. All that happened, interestingly, around the time of CASA legal rising to hegemony in the hierarchy of CASA under the Eastern block lawyers.
New Zealand, after a major disaster and resultant royal commission, made a start on reform but after strong opposition within their regulator had to virtually dismantle their bureaucracy and start afresh. Around two years and a few million dollars, using the FAR's as a template, they produced what are recognised as some of the best regulation in the world, adopted pretty much by most of the Pacific region.
Australia by contrast has stumbled along over thirty years, expending hundreds of millions of dollars to produce a Miss mash of convoluted, indecipherable garbage that has driven up the costs associated with every facet of the aviation industry to unaffordable levels, made Australia a pariah and shut the country out of participation with the rest of the world. We used to train excellent engineers in a fairly simple, cost effective, apprenticeship system. Participation has now diminished to alarming levels, kids are not stupid, they will look at the costs to qualify, look at the rewards after completing their training, and come to the conclusion there are easier ways to earn a quid, besides our engineers qualifications are not even recognised outside Australia any more. The same applies to our maintenance and engineering companies, shut out of competing with the rest of the world, I fear the same thing will happen to our pilots as well, tick in the box training just doesn't cut it.
Its not just aviation who suffer under the bureaucrats. Why it is ingrained in our public sector bureaucratic DNA that the whole world is wrong, only Australia is right?
I have no idea, but as someone once said "copy the best, discard the rest" never a truer word.
We made a start, way back when, to align with the US FAR's. A group that included industry representatives produced some excellent legislation, then suddenly we changed horses after the starting gun had gone and went for EASA alignment. Which of course didn't happen either, EASA reg's were a disaster, proved virtually unworkable and largely had to be rewritten to better align with US reg's. All that happened, interestingly, around the time of CASA legal rising to hegemony in the hierarchy of CASA under the Eastern block lawyers.
New Zealand, after a major disaster and resultant royal commission, made a start on reform but after strong opposition within their regulator had to virtually dismantle their bureaucracy and start afresh. Around two years and a few million dollars, using the FAR's as a template, they produced what are recognised as some of the best regulation in the world, adopted pretty much by most of the Pacific region.
Australia by contrast has stumbled along over thirty years, expending hundreds of millions of dollars to produce a Miss mash of convoluted, indecipherable garbage that has driven up the costs associated with every facet of the aviation industry to unaffordable levels, made Australia a pariah and shut the country out of participation with the rest of the world. We used to train excellent engineers in a fairly simple, cost effective, apprenticeship system. Participation has now diminished to alarming levels, kids are not stupid, they will look at the costs to qualify, look at the rewards after completing their training, and come to the conclusion there are easier ways to earn a quid, besides our engineers qualifications are not even recognised outside Australia any more. The same applies to our maintenance and engineering companies, shut out of competing with the rest of the world, I fear the same thing will happen to our pilots as well, tick in the box training just doesn't cut it.
Its not just aviation who suffer under the bureaucrats. Why it is ingrained in our public sector bureaucratic DNA that the whole world is wrong, only Australia is right?
I have no idea, but as someone once said "copy the best, discard the rest" never a truer word.