01-20-2022, 11:00 PM
I’ll play the Devil’s Advocate. Why does AVMED require funding, cooperation and resources in order to make rational changes for the good of Australia’s aviation industry? Changes that would drastically reduce its work to the point where its normal make work system couldn’t put up any semblance of the look busy theatre.
In reality is it really to do with the PMO? The whole charade about months have to pass with technical groups and consultations before reforms can be implemented is that same old tired playbook and revulsion at the thought of actually making decisions. Ms. Spence has been in the chair since the 17th of May last year and is fully cognisant of the condition of dire straits that is the sad reality of Australia’s aviation scene. Together with Minister Joyce she has had the power to unshackle the aviation community, in particular General Aviation, from the bureaucratic garrotte, but after the showing at the RRAT hearing it seems that Jon Aleck is the real CEO.
For a simple PPL medical reform, proven by years of RAAUS experience, let alone the experience and practice of other countries, there is no need for this unconscionable delay. Same for the Angel Flight restrictions that have been wrongfully left in place which is against the interests of treatment for those unfortunate people that AF serves.
Say what you like, give them time, bureaucratic process, don’t expect too much too soon, it’s different this time they are listening, reckon the Minister means business…….
What do we have now? Wonderful intentions and some advice how to assess one’s fitness to fly after contracting COVID19. Apparently AVMED receiving too many calls by lots of pilots who are so frightened by the CASA juggernaut that they can’t work that out for themselves. Heaven help them if they catch SARS 1 (common cold) or the ‘flu and are suspected of flying without strictly following the guidelines.
Looking today at some thirty and forty year old papers and letters written to MPs and CASA simply asking for reasonable improvements. In forty years the one common and outstanding feature of Australia’s GA has been the steady deterioration in the way government has treated aviation, with the exception in the late nineties some reforms, nod to Bill Hamilton and Dick Smith, that have been eroded since.
In reality is it really to do with the PMO? The whole charade about months have to pass with technical groups and consultations before reforms can be implemented is that same old tired playbook and revulsion at the thought of actually making decisions. Ms. Spence has been in the chair since the 17th of May last year and is fully cognisant of the condition of dire straits that is the sad reality of Australia’s aviation scene. Together with Minister Joyce she has had the power to unshackle the aviation community, in particular General Aviation, from the bureaucratic garrotte, but after the showing at the RRAT hearing it seems that Jon Aleck is the real CEO.
For a simple PPL medical reform, proven by years of RAAUS experience, let alone the experience and practice of other countries, there is no need for this unconscionable delay. Same for the Angel Flight restrictions that have been wrongfully left in place which is against the interests of treatment for those unfortunate people that AF serves.
Say what you like, give them time, bureaucratic process, don’t expect too much too soon, it’s different this time they are listening, reckon the Minister means business…….
What do we have now? Wonderful intentions and some advice how to assess one’s fitness to fly after contracting COVID19. Apparently AVMED receiving too many calls by lots of pilots who are so frightened by the CASA juggernaut that they can’t work that out for themselves. Heaven help them if they catch SARS 1 (common cold) or the ‘flu and are suspected of flying without strictly following the guidelines.
Looking today at some thirty and forty year old papers and letters written to MPs and CASA simply asking for reasonable improvements. In forty years the one common and outstanding feature of Australia’s GA has been the steady deterioration in the way government has treated aviation, with the exception in the late nineties some reforms, nod to Bill Hamilton and Dick Smith, that have been eroded since.