[Sandy Reith]

269 the number of the Iron Ring??

“..a cool 269 pages..” That is a number, and in that number a treatise of such detail, an incredible justification of the unjustifiable. Part of the game, crafting answers to the whole sorry story by an author who’s made a career out of writing clever inventions to give undertaker like cosmetics on the body of General Aviation.

But the number 269, same number of submissions to the Government’s 2014 Forsyth inquiry into the diseased body of GA, a body succumbing to Casarisis. (Ref link: https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/infras...ubmissions )

Was that number unconsciously inscribed into the brain of our author? Did that number of GA submissions, representing the enemy having expended much of its remaining force, shock his sensibilities?

No, It gave him a challenge to relish knowing that he would overcome that barrage of pleadings and fairly well deplete the last of rising hopes. Correctly as it has turned out, refer Ms Dolittle’s excuse for doing nothing to help GA. She decided to hold yet another inquiry (Senator McDonald’s two year, yes two weary years, drawn out GA inquiry, the RRAT, designed to finish just as the maelstrom of election frenzy hits). She had to plead for more submissions from the GA community. So much so she reprimanded us for lack of submission numbers. 

And now to quiet the fainter cries for help from the wheezing Casarisis riddled body of GA a new Statement of Expectations. Like a pillow presented for comfort but placed on the face not under the head. The SoE is so full of contradictions it can be whatever you power it to be and we still have nothing.

P2 addition, via ProAviation: http://proaviation.com.au/

ProAviation comments on ASRR report – July 30, 2014

Introduction

ProAviation further submits that notwithstanding any of the Panel’s recommendations, the new national aviation authority’s title should not include the word “safety,” which as far as we are aware is not part of the title of any other NAA in the world. This would therefore be in conformity with other NAAs, and would remove yet another aberration that is perceived as “uniquely Australian.” It is an embarrassment to an industry whose cornerstone is its safety culture, and the continued over-use of the word in the authority’s title and in its public affairs is an ongoing insult to the intelligence of the public, the Parliament and the industry both domestically and globally.

At this time, as amply confirmed by the ASRR’s observations, the interaction between the authority and industry renders their differences unacceptable, and even with a new chief executive and an enlarged board, the endemic problems, many identified in the review, cannot be resolved without major cultural change. This is a cultural issue and the leadership has gone to great lengths to inculcate this corruptive “them and us” mindset.

The Civil Aviation Act should be amended to give effect to a USA style of mandate for its Federal Aviation Administration where the FAA is responsible to “promote” aviation in every possible manner within its safety obligations.

Ref: https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/...iation.pdf