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QE2 birthday GONG for St Carmodious?? 

Via EWH:

Ken Broomhead with a local flying instructor on a visit to North Queensland Aero Club (NQAC), where he learnt to fly in 1963. (NQAC / Facebook)

Queen's Birthday Honour for a Life in Aviation

Ken Broomhead has been awarded an OAM for services to aviation.

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Former CASA Director of Aviation Safety and CEO Shane Carmody was today awarded a Public Service Medal (PSM) for "modernising air safety regulations and drone pilot licensing." Carmody took over as Acting DAS in 2016 and was the head of CASA full time from June 2017 to 31 December 2020.

From the former patron Saint of Aviation Safety that stated this bollocks...

 
Plus this: 



& this...


Ref: https://auntypru.com/sbg-13-06-21-the-ti...lrus-said/

Yet another, Mick Mack supported, up yours from the Iron Ring and Can'tberra aviation safety bureaucracy  - UFB!! 

Addendum: Some industry comments so far...  

Via AOPA Oz FB:

SHANE CARMODY AWARDED PUBLIC SERVICE MEDAL FOR MODERNISING AIR SAFETY REGULATIONS

AOPA Australia invites aviation industry participants to post a comment detailing your thoughts regarding the awarding of the Public Service Medal to the former CASA Director of Aviation Safety, Mr Shane Carmody, for outstanding service to modernising air safety regulations.

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Pro Aviation

I had the dubious honour of first encountering Shane P Carmody in the mid 90s when he was deputy to Bruce Byron. He was devious then and misled a few ministers including the A.G. M. Dreyfus. I suppose blatant lies is to be expected from incompetence and if that is the basis for selection then I pity any well deserving recipients. As a burorat he is cunning. As to virtually killing off General Aviation, none better, in fact outstanding . Can only hope the tram network in CB is expanded soon !

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Sandy Reith

Those of us that might be termed part of the General Aviation (GA) community can be forgiven for wondering who wrote, among other such erroneous statements, such as “rebuilding of industry confidence.”
Obviously the author has not one iota of knowledge about the sorry state of GA in Australia.

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David Ian Grant

Modernising regulation???? surely that is a contradiction in terms.

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Mark Noble

The medal just lost all meaning!!.

Over complicating regulation and making it illegible, YES!.
CASA regulation and safety don’t go together.

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James Connolly

I was amazed when I read this in the newspaper, who on earth nominated him ? Makes a mockery out of the award.

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Ian Carfrae

Seriously !! The clown destroyed aviation!

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Eugene Butler

You're kidding right? April was 2 months ago!

I mean I had zero patience for CAsA to begin with but now.....just wow!

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Justin RC

But it’s not April Fools?

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Peter Phillips

Only in Australia will you see this level of corruption! Still you need to be a criminal to get recognised that's for sure!

Pro Aviation

Peter Phillips the penal colony alive and well, entry/exit by invitation only. Rum Corp now known as public servants, unelected masters of politicians.

The St Carmodious GONG has even stirred up commentary on the UP - see from HERE.

Lead Balloon

Folks outside ‘the bubble’ will have understandable difficulty in understanding that a mere PSM speaks volumes of the government’s assessment of the value of Mr Carmody’s contribution. Public servants were awarded PSMs for not finding MH370, because of their untiring efforts in organising other people to look for it, unsuccessfully, at the taxpayer’s expense.


It’s the public service equivalent of a Tenderfoot Badge in Scouts.

Mr Carmody’s primary ‘value’ to the government was his shameless claim, or at least his willingness not to refute the assertion, that he ‘completed’ the aviation regulatory reform program.

Although the regulatory reform program has effectively been abandoned while leaving a self-licking ice cream of impenetrable complexity in its wake, governments can now say it’s been ‘completed’.

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Originally Posted by glenb 

The CASA culture.

The vast majority in CASA from my own personal experience are well intentioned and professional, and you can’t ask for much more than that.

No organisation will work if you can’t get the staff sharing the vision of the management.

Uniquely for CASA they have a problem where the current leadership will never get the staff to share the vision, because the staff are well intentioned and professional.

They choose not to share the vision, and that’s indicated in the staff survey

The main problem with CASA, or dare I say the root cause of CASA’s issues is Aleck. It’s been that way for 3 decades. The one constant feature through 30 years of issues, Aleck. Of course, the Government really don’t care, because if they did he would’ve been gone a long long time ago. When you see wankers like Carmody rewarded by the Queen for decades of incompetence you soon see that there is no hope in reforming the ‘R’egulator. When it comes to reform nobody cares. Nobody wants to. Nobody knows how to. Nobody will.

Who knows, maybe Aleck is of the same ilk as Scotty from Marketing and he is into faith healing and he actually believes his legal hands are miraculously reforming the ‘R’egulator? He certainly speaks in tongues, sprouting legal wankery and Rhode Island language at every opportunity. It’s all the same, absolute manure.

MTF...P2