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FARP topcover for miniscule McDonaught posterior? 

Via the Dept website: https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/aviati...index.aspx

Future of Aviation Reference Panel

The Future of Aviation Reference Panel has been established to consult the aviation industry on the recently released Issues Paper on the Future of Australia's Aviation Sector and provide expert advice to Government on the challenges facing the industry and opportunities for reform. 

The Panel will be chaired by Professor Patrick Murray, Chair of the Aviation Safety Advisory Panel at the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and Honorary Professor of Aviation and Logistics at the University of Southern Queensland. Professor Murray will be joined by expert panel members Ms Adrianne Fleming OAM, Mr Andrew Drysdale and Ms Shannon O'Hara.

The Panel will engage industry and advise the Government on how to support the aviation sector as it recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure we continue to have a safe, secure and efficient industry for Australia's future.

Queries regarding the Panel's work should be directed to the Secretariat via an email to FAR.Panel@infrastructure.gov.au.

• Panel members' biographical information DOCX: 15 KB PDF: 512 KB
  

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Virtual consultations

Public consultations with industry and the community were held in December 2020 to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the sector, both in the context of the current COVID-19 crisis and in the longer term.[/size]

The question that needs to be asked...is this just another aviation smoke'n'mirrors panel designed to extricate our useless 'do nothing' miniscule's posterior out of the political firing line for the foreseeable (till next election) future? 

Hmmm...somehow I think that it is what Sandy is hedging his bet on -  

Via PAIN Net email chain:

[*]Questions about the Future of Aviation Panel

..Dear Secretary,


Please advise what is (1.) the brief of Panel and (2.) any information regarding that brief or instructions from the Minister in regard to timing of recommendations. 

I would also like to know:- (3.) how often does the Panel meet and (4.) are meeting minutes available?  (5.) Will Panel members receive such correspondence as this as a matter of course?

My particular interest is General Aviation (GA) and the administration of same. There have been a number of government inquiries over the years, notably the Forsyth inquiry of 2014 and more recently the on going Senate Committee chaired by Senator Susan McDonald. 

The many ills that bedevil GA have been evident for very many years and COVID has exacerbated the problems facing GA. 

The GA community has watched the decline of GA through poor policies leading to excessive paperwork and a raft of new permits that are required for almost any commercial GA activity. To establish a new flying school will require spending many thousands of dollars, where in the past there were no fees for this or minimal at most. Excessive requirements, including very high fees, by CASA have led to the loss of hundreds of flying schools, and in particular the relatively new Parts 61 and 141/142 have sounded the death knell for a number of the few remaining schools. 

There are other parts to the regulatory nightmare that Australia’s General Aviation has attempted to deal with, simply put the independent Commonwealth corporate model of governance has failed as any comparison with the world’s most developed GA sector, the USA, will reveal. 

I would very appreciate any advice from the Panel in regard to it’s work and how it wishes to influence Government policy in relation to GA. 

Thanking you,

Regards,

Sandy Reith

MTF...P2