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Sandy's disgust at EWH's Class 5 medical scoop -   

Via the AP email chains:

I’ve commented via the AP on Hitchen’s gloating revelation, “you heard it here first”, about a proposed Class 5 medical and I’m laying blame at the Minister’s door for such communication and it’s content. 


Possibly unfairly in the immediate sense but in the broad picture he is responsible, if and unless the Westminster system doesn’t apply these days. 

It certainly is looking that way if ‘independent’ Commonwealth corporations such as CASA can play merry hell and get away with it, as it has for the 33 years of it’s existence. 

Otherwise it seems like some discontent in CASA has taken it upon themselves to propagate this idea of a medical standard reform, something that’s been a screaming no brainer for years, but giving it a silly name. To call this new one a ‘Class 5’ is preposterous. It should be, at minimum, known as the Basic Class 2 (amended).  

The uninitiated might ask why? Because our ever 
more unusual and unique Australian regulatory inventions serve to confuse and baffle the GA community, quite apart from bringing us into further ridicule and disrepute internationally. We are supposed to be integrating in the connected, but uncertain, world. AUKUS and our security being strong new factors that should cause us to parallel with our allies, especially when their aviation regulatory environments are demonstrably superior. 

Let’s presume this was a rogue employee bent on embarrassing the CEO and DPM, then that person or persons responsible should be discovered and publicly reprimanded. Between them the Minister and Ms. Spence are paid well in excess of $1,000,000 pa to be in charge, surely they were not complicit in this underhanded information leak? 

We should have explanations; why Hitchen? Why not proper channels? and we should be informed of remedial action. 

If it doesn’t happen pretty smartly then we’ll question whether the Australian public are getting value for money because senior officials must be responsible and accountable for all of the actions of the whole entity for which they have responsibility. 

Sandy 

  
And C's reply to that:

"Class 5" medical certificate?


Just goes to show the contempt in which CASA holds the Minister and the general aviation community.   Just goes to show how weakened the fabric of government has become.

Hitchen's exposed himself as a useful idiot (which is why I haven't purchased the rag he works for, for years). 

Safe flying

C

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