08-07-2022, 02:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-07-2022, 02:59 PM by Sandy Reith.)
“ An even bigger question is why not bring in 'self certification' for PPL holders and reduce the paper log jams created by a dysfunction system..”
The too smart answer is that self certification has been the successful standard for some 30 years, in the two seat low weight category. Recreational Aviation Australia, RAAUS, has now close to 10,000 members and it’s proven to be a completely satisfactory standard, yes 30 years.
But ‘K’ refers to the pilots of VH registered aircraft of General Aviation (GA), some of which can be registered in the low weight RAAUS system with numbers instead of the VH ‘regular’ CASA lettered registration marks.
As it stands currently, the VH pilot population are somehow quite a different risk as they step from the VH registered aircraft into the RAAUS registered one, even the exact same aircraft if re-registered.
But if not willing to go by this many years of experience of the RAAUS cohort, then we now have additional statistics from the USA model from the last six years of self certified private pilots. With pilot numbers, and hours flown way in excess of our truncated and declining GA sector, which is puny by comparison, no problem.
The new Principal Medical Officer of CASA, like the new CEO Ms. Pip Spence, came in and was hailed as the great hope for rational reform. Ms. Spence says they are working through 600 submissions about medical certification reform. Why bother? Just get on with it and begin the revitalisation of Australia’s GA. Reform will create thousands of jobs and create numerous GA businesses and services, all going to our strength as a Nation in this security important sector.
Will we see reform? There’s been one reform of note so far into the second year of Pip Spence’s reign, this was deleting the crushingly wasteful Cessna Special Inspections for private aircraft. All the while GA is still being strangled by the Bureaucratic red tape and Glen Buckley is not compensated. So the outlook is bleak and we must continue to call for the reforms that are expected, and call our MPs to action.
The too smart answer is that self certification has been the successful standard for some 30 years, in the two seat low weight category. Recreational Aviation Australia, RAAUS, has now close to 10,000 members and it’s proven to be a completely satisfactory standard, yes 30 years.
But ‘K’ refers to the pilots of VH registered aircraft of General Aviation (GA), some of which can be registered in the low weight RAAUS system with numbers instead of the VH ‘regular’ CASA lettered registration marks.
As it stands currently, the VH pilot population are somehow quite a different risk as they step from the VH registered aircraft into the RAAUS registered one, even the exact same aircraft if re-registered.
But if not willing to go by this many years of experience of the RAAUS cohort, then we now have additional statistics from the USA model from the last six years of self certified private pilots. With pilot numbers, and hours flown way in excess of our truncated and declining GA sector, which is puny by comparison, no problem.
The new Principal Medical Officer of CASA, like the new CEO Ms. Pip Spence, came in and was hailed as the great hope for rational reform. Ms. Spence says they are working through 600 submissions about medical certification reform. Why bother? Just get on with it and begin the revitalisation of Australia’s GA. Reform will create thousands of jobs and create numerous GA businesses and services, all going to our strength as a Nation in this security important sector.
Will we see reform? There’s been one reform of note so far into the second year of Pip Spence’s reign, this was deleting the crushingly wasteful Cessna Special Inspections for private aircraft. All the while GA is still being strangled by the Bureaucratic red tape and Glen Buckley is not compensated. So the outlook is bleak and we must continue to call for the reforms that are expected, and call our MPs to action.