Here we go - again:-
From the UP - HERE - (Whoops -
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Well, there you go Capt. Wannabe, finally the ‘associations’ are being forced to take action – maybe; AVMED in the spotlight. It’s only a dim light but at least it’s on; even the UP crew have caught on to the fact that far from a little improvement to the $75 service provided things have, if it was possible, actually gotten worse under the ‘new’ leadership. Skidmore is in denial – again, which is no surprise; but the numbers of pilots being taken ‘off roster’ due to either no certificate arriving, even after a three month delay or, for the need of specialist consultation is beginning to hurt.
These are not odd, isolated cases, but a steadily increasing number. ‘We’ have been keeping a log for a good long while now, delayed certificate issue was the leading contender, many instances of folk spending days on the telephone, desperately trying to remain ‘legal’ before the cut off date. Many tried to request and require their certificate weeks before the ‘illegal’ part kicked in, to no avail. But the latest leader is the rejection of specialist advice; it goes like this. You pass your medical and the DAME extends that to 90 days; CASA decide you have a ‘problem’ and require ‘specialist’ advice; off you go and spend the required dollars to obtain said specialist advice, this is duly forwarded to Avmed. Then you wait until the ‘experts’ at Avmed overturn the specialist advice which say’s you are fine and there you are; heading for the AAAT, or the knackers yard. It was bad when Pooh-Shambollic ran the joint, but despite the rhetoric things have not improved, far from it.
This topic has been ‘done to death’, what has happened? SFA is what. A concerted effort from industry operators and the pilot body federation, associations and unions to pull Avmed into gear in overdue. Until there is a real demand for change, this medical madness will just keep getting worse. CASA and Avmed are in denial, their system and methodology have been proved flawed, time and time again through medical science, both court and AAT and yet nothing changes. We now have part 61 grounded pilots and medically grounded pilots, as a perfect example of just how ducked up the CASA is. Will industry get off it’s collective and push back; or, will it just live in hope that things may, someday improve?
I know where my two bob bet will be placed, safe as houses.
Aye, it’s tedious to watch this topic rise to the surface (again) only to watch it sink (again), particularly when the rest of the grown up world is taking sensible strides away from WW2 standards. Always made me smile, you need to be in superb condition to be a front line fighting soldier, but to sit on your arse in an aircraft do you really need much more than a pulse? Never figured that one out yet.
Heigh-Ho back to my knitting.
He's good,
From the UP - HERE - (Whoops -
).Well, there you go Capt. Wannabe, finally the ‘associations’ are being forced to take action – maybe; AVMED in the spotlight. It’s only a dim light but at least it’s on; even the UP crew have caught on to the fact that far from a little improvement to the $75 service provided things have, if it was possible, actually gotten worse under the ‘new’ leadership. Skidmore is in denial – again, which is no surprise; but the numbers of pilots being taken ‘off roster’ due to either no certificate arriving, even after a three month delay or, for the need of specialist consultation is beginning to hurt.
These are not odd, isolated cases, but a steadily increasing number. ‘We’ have been keeping a log for a good long while now, delayed certificate issue was the leading contender, many instances of folk spending days on the telephone, desperately trying to remain ‘legal’ before the cut off date. Many tried to request and require their certificate weeks before the ‘illegal’ part kicked in, to no avail. But the latest leader is the rejection of specialist advice; it goes like this. You pass your medical and the DAME extends that to 90 days; CASA decide you have a ‘problem’ and require ‘specialist’ advice; off you go and spend the required dollars to obtain said specialist advice, this is duly forwarded to Avmed. Then you wait until the ‘experts’ at Avmed overturn the specialist advice which say’s you are fine and there you are; heading for the AAAT, or the knackers yard. It was bad when Pooh-Shambollic ran the joint, but despite the rhetoric things have not improved, far from it.
This topic has been ‘done to death’, what has happened? SFA is what. A concerted effort from industry operators and the pilot body federation, associations and unions to pull Avmed into gear in overdue. Until there is a real demand for change, this medical madness will just keep getting worse. CASA and Avmed are in denial, their system and methodology have been proved flawed, time and time again through medical science, both court and AAT and yet nothing changes. We now have part 61 grounded pilots and medically grounded pilots, as a perfect example of just how ducked up the CASA is. Will industry get off it’s collective and push back; or, will it just live in hope that things may, someday improve?
I know where my two bob bet will be placed, safe as houses.
Aye, it’s tedious to watch this topic rise to the surface (again) only to watch it sink (again), particularly when the rest of the grown up world is taking sensible strides away from WW2 standards. Always made me smile, you need to be in superb condition to be a front line fighting soldier, but to sit on your arse in an aircraft do you really need much more than a pulse? Never figured that one out yet.
Heigh-Ho back to my knitting.
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And you must submit a formal complaint to CASA and the Commonwealth Ombudsman.
The figleaf that Mr Skidmore puts over AVMED is that CASA has "only received 13 formal complaints about AVMED." (My recollection is that 13 was the number. My recollection may be inaccurate, but it was a very small number.)
It appears that the trenchant criticisms of AVMED in the submissions of the pilot representative bodies to the ASRR don't count in Mr Skidmore's mind. It appears that the number of AVMED decision overturned by the AAT, or overturned before an embarrassing decision by the AAT, don't count in Mr Skidmore's mind.
I think Mr Skidmore isn't allowed to do much independent thinking.
He's good,