08-04-2017, 12:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-04-2017, 01:27 PM by thorn bird.)
Again Mr. Smith highlights the bleeding obvious. Its been obvious for years but the governments answer is??? Ah lets hold an inquiry.
There's been an "Inquiry" almost every year for the past twenty years, all coming to pretty much the same conclusion, but just in case, lets have another one, only this time exclude those with skin in the game, the AOPA from the table, that way we might get a different more favourable conclusion.
All the while the statistics incontrovertibly prove that the GA industry is in fact spiralling down the black hole to oblivion.The big question is WHY? what possible motive could a government have for destroying an industry? Do they even have a motive? or are they just so stupid and inept that they are completely blind to the obvious.
It simply beggars belief that a government can produce an Act, form a quango corporation, charge them with regulating, then stand back with no checks or balances no audit to insure what they are actually doing is in the interest of the industry they regulate, is achieving what the Act charges them to do, and be mindful of the publics money they expend. In every aspect CAsA has failed. In every aspect they have simply heaped pile after pile of rubbish regulation on an already fragile industry and achieved absolutely nothing except the steady decline of the industry they oversee, and expended vast amounts of taxpayers dollars on a farce.[/b]
The Australian2:52PM July 18, 2017
ANNABEL HEPWORTH
Aviation EditorSydney
@HepworthAnnabel
The number of general aviation aircraft that are flying has fallen further, sparking warnings by businessman and aviation veteran Dick Smith that the sector faces “destruction”.
Mr Smith issued the warning about the challenges facing the general aviation sector as recent figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics show that the number of active aviation aircraft doing GA work was 8976 in 2015.
This is a fall on the year prior, when there were 10,034 active aircraft in GA operations. In 2013, there were 10,173 aircraft, although this was up on the 9448 recorded in 2012. Mr Smith lamented that “less and less” people were flying.
“It’s absolutely criminal what’s happening to general aviation. It’s the basis for airline pilot training,” Mr Smith told The Australian.
“It’s very serious ... it’s basically the destruction of an industry.”
As evidence of the decline in the sector, Mr Smith pointed to the serious difficulties he had in attempting to getting his beloved Cessna Citation serviced.
Mr Smith sold the Citation last year, saying at the time that it was “simply too expensive to keep it running in Australia with the regulations we are forced to comply with”.
The warning comes after it emerged last month that a landmark review into the costs and red tape impacting the sector has been delayed. While the report, also being conducted by BITRE, was expected to be finished by June 30, it will now be finalised in “coming months”, the office of Infrastructure and Transport Minister Darren Chester indicated recently.
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of Australia executive director Benjamin Morgan said the BITRE data highlighted a decline in some of the biggest areas of aviation activity.
The Australian has confirmed that AOPA has written to Mr Chester and Civil Aviation Safety Authority boss Shane Carmody drawing attention to the figures.
In a letter last week, Mr Morgan also attached 57 pages of comments from participants in a petition on saving Australia’s general aviation industry.
The BITRE data showed that by hours flown, training was down by 5.6 per cent in 2015 over 2014, and had fallen by 14.5 per cent in 2014 over 2013. Survey and photography work was also well down.
“This isn’t surprising considering that our pilot number graphs and avgas sales numbers all show a 35 per cent decline over the past 10 years,” Mr Morgan said.
He said AOPA’s economic modelling conservatively suggested the decline in the sector over the past five years “translates to a half-billion-dollar loss to the broader Australian economy”.
“AOPA Australia firmly believes the declines have continued through 2016 and are forecast to accelerate through 2017, unless genuine reforms are initiated,” Mr Morgan said. It was alarming that the report showed that one in five aircraft were now unused, because this meant a share of the fleet was “no longer providing an economic contribution to the industry”.
The report showed there were 1367 aircraft zero flying hours where the owners blamed repair, maintenance or restoration work.
The data also showed hours flown for non-scheduled commercial air transport — charter flights — was down 10.9 per cent in 2015 from 2014, and had fallen 17.9 per cent in 2014 over 2013.
[b]CAsA has quite obviously failed as a regulator. We hear so often Australia has the safest skies in the world.
Bunkum! Australia has the most expensive skies in the world for pretty much the same reasons we have the dearest electricity in the world. Incompetence!
CAsA has squandered almost half a billion Dollars and taken more than a quarter of a century to "Reform" our regulations and they are only half finished, New Zealand completed their regulatory reform in a couple of years for a few million Dollars. They modelled their regulations on the most successful and safest regulations in the world the US FAR's. Today NZ regulations have been adopted throughout the Pacific, Australia's home grown industry killing rubbish is an international joke.
There's been an "Inquiry" almost every year for the past twenty years, all coming to pretty much the same conclusion, but just in case, lets have another one, only this time exclude those with skin in the game, the AOPA from the table, that way we might get a different more favourable conclusion.
All the while the statistics incontrovertibly prove that the GA industry is in fact spiralling down the black hole to oblivion.The big question is WHY? what possible motive could a government have for destroying an industry? Do they even have a motive? or are they just so stupid and inept that they are completely blind to the obvious.
It simply beggars belief that a government can produce an Act, form a quango corporation, charge them with regulating, then stand back with no checks or balances no audit to insure what they are actually doing is in the interest of the industry they regulate, is achieving what the Act charges them to do, and be mindful of the publics money they expend. In every aspect CAsA has failed. In every aspect they have simply heaped pile after pile of rubbish regulation on an already fragile industry and achieved absolutely nothing except the steady decline of the industry they oversee, and expended vast amounts of taxpayers dollars on a farce.[/b]
The Australian2:52PM July 18, 2017
ANNABEL HEPWORTH
Aviation EditorSydney
@HepworthAnnabel
The number of general aviation aircraft that are flying has fallen further, sparking warnings by businessman and aviation veteran Dick Smith that the sector faces “destruction”.
Mr Smith issued the warning about the challenges facing the general aviation sector as recent figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics show that the number of active aviation aircraft doing GA work was 8976 in 2015.
This is a fall on the year prior, when there were 10,034 active aircraft in GA operations. In 2013, there were 10,173 aircraft, although this was up on the 9448 recorded in 2012. Mr Smith lamented that “less and less” people were flying.
“It’s absolutely criminal what’s happening to general aviation. It’s the basis for airline pilot training,” Mr Smith told The Australian.
“It’s very serious ... it’s basically the destruction of an industry.”
As evidence of the decline in the sector, Mr Smith pointed to the serious difficulties he had in attempting to getting his beloved Cessna Citation serviced.
Mr Smith sold the Citation last year, saying at the time that it was “simply too expensive to keep it running in Australia with the regulations we are forced to comply with”.
The warning comes after it emerged last month that a landmark review into the costs and red tape impacting the sector has been delayed. While the report, also being conducted by BITRE, was expected to be finished by June 30, it will now be finalised in “coming months”, the office of Infrastructure and Transport Minister Darren Chester indicated recently.
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of Australia executive director Benjamin Morgan said the BITRE data highlighted a decline in some of the biggest areas of aviation activity.
The Australian has confirmed that AOPA has written to Mr Chester and Civil Aviation Safety Authority boss Shane Carmody drawing attention to the figures.
In a letter last week, Mr Morgan also attached 57 pages of comments from participants in a petition on saving Australia’s general aviation industry.
The BITRE data showed that by hours flown, training was down by 5.6 per cent in 2015 over 2014, and had fallen by 14.5 per cent in 2014 over 2013. Survey and photography work was also well down.
“This isn’t surprising considering that our pilot number graphs and avgas sales numbers all show a 35 per cent decline over the past 10 years,” Mr Morgan said.
He said AOPA’s economic modelling conservatively suggested the decline in the sector over the past five years “translates to a half-billion-dollar loss to the broader Australian economy”.
“AOPA Australia firmly believes the declines have continued through 2016 and are forecast to accelerate through 2017, unless genuine reforms are initiated,” Mr Morgan said. It was alarming that the report showed that one in five aircraft were now unused, because this meant a share of the fleet was “no longer providing an economic contribution to the industry”.
The report showed there were 1367 aircraft zero flying hours where the owners blamed repair, maintenance or restoration work.
The data also showed hours flown for non-scheduled commercial air transport — charter flights — was down 10.9 per cent in 2015 from 2014, and had fallen 17.9 per cent in 2014 over 2013.
[b]CAsA has quite obviously failed as a regulator. We hear so often Australia has the safest skies in the world.
Bunkum! Australia has the most expensive skies in the world for pretty much the same reasons we have the dearest electricity in the world. Incompetence!
CAsA has squandered almost half a billion Dollars and taken more than a quarter of a century to "Reform" our regulations and they are only half finished, New Zealand completed their regulatory reform in a couple of years for a few million Dollars. They modelled their regulations on the most successful and safest regulations in the world the US FAR's. Today NZ regulations have been adopted throughout the Pacific, Australia's home grown industry killing rubbish is an international joke.