08-06-2021, 05:17 PM
Well fair dinkum Susan McDonald, please excuse a little frustration here. Yes your 54 submissions versus 269 of the 2014 Forsyth review doesn’t look like there’s much enthusiasm for your inquiry.
Sit back and ask yourself why?
Look at it another way, there’s not been any progress away from the ever more stultifying and fee gouging trajectory by the out of control regulator emanating from any of the inquiries since 1988. With much hope and with the firepower of David Forsyth, and his very well qualified fellow members, General Aviation was galvanised into action believing that there would be reforms to relieve GA, stop the rot, and even put us back on a path to growth. Result? nothing but more of the same and worse, ask Glen Buckley, or any of the GA businesses being evicted from their hangars at Moorabbin.
Dear Senator, question; have you read all 269 submissions to the Forsyth inquiry? May I suggest you add those submissions to you 54 and now you have 353 submissions.
You might understand that all this free work contributed by GA business people has to be prepared by them when they are already overworked with mountains of unnecessary CASA paperwork and having to pay for new and unnecessary permits. Then you ask them to do it all again; but what has changed since Forsyth? Fewer people left, regulations worse see Part 61/141/142 (just for starters) and 135 coming to wreck even more GA businesses and reduce the aerial services, especially to your outback residents.
Why did they spend umpteen hours writing all these reports for you and Forsyth?
To help government through what should be the extremely obvious, not forgetting that we employ via our taxes through the government’s own ‘experts,’ CASA, to advise on the efficient means to have a sustainable GA industry. To an industry being crushed by the very government body that should be helping it and you ask why aren’t you getting more submissions?
One could be forgiven for a lapse into cynicism, hopes dashed again and again because there’s not been one government MP stand up for GA and demanding action now.
But we keep on hoping and you gave hope to me, one example, during one of your sessions you understood that there was great difficulty for helicopter pilots to obtain their regular flight checks as required by CASA. In session you, impressively, made to ask CASA to rectify this glaring wrong. Well, what has happened?
And now we read the latest Statement of Expectations (SOE), obviously written by CASA or at least for the CASA brethren, signed off with indecent haste minutes before Barnaby Joyce took over from M. McCormack, with not one concrete requirement. And yes motherhood is a wonderful institution.
Give us some runs on the board immediately, it’s easy if you can persuade Barnaby. He can change the SOE requiring some exemplary reforms within the next two or three weeks. Independent instructors, private pilot medicals in line with the low weight category (car driver), cancel Cessna SIDs for private operations. Then have Barnaby talk to Peter Dutton and implement the Forsyth recommendation and remove the expensive and ineffective ASIC two yearly imposition and call a moratorium on the further alienation of airport land away from aviation uses.
Give us some real hope and be a hero to thousands of dinkum Aussies who will support you to the hilt.
Kind regards, Sandy Reith.
Sit back and ask yourself why?
Look at it another way, there’s not been any progress away from the ever more stultifying and fee gouging trajectory by the out of control regulator emanating from any of the inquiries since 1988. With much hope and with the firepower of David Forsyth, and his very well qualified fellow members, General Aviation was galvanised into action believing that there would be reforms to relieve GA, stop the rot, and even put us back on a path to growth. Result? nothing but more of the same and worse, ask Glen Buckley, or any of the GA businesses being evicted from their hangars at Moorabbin.
Dear Senator, question; have you read all 269 submissions to the Forsyth inquiry? May I suggest you add those submissions to you 54 and now you have 353 submissions.
You might understand that all this free work contributed by GA business people has to be prepared by them when they are already overworked with mountains of unnecessary CASA paperwork and having to pay for new and unnecessary permits. Then you ask them to do it all again; but what has changed since Forsyth? Fewer people left, regulations worse see Part 61/141/142 (just for starters) and 135 coming to wreck even more GA businesses and reduce the aerial services, especially to your outback residents.
Why did they spend umpteen hours writing all these reports for you and Forsyth?
To help government through what should be the extremely obvious, not forgetting that we employ via our taxes through the government’s own ‘experts,’ CASA, to advise on the efficient means to have a sustainable GA industry. To an industry being crushed by the very government body that should be helping it and you ask why aren’t you getting more submissions?
One could be forgiven for a lapse into cynicism, hopes dashed again and again because there’s not been one government MP stand up for GA and demanding action now.
But we keep on hoping and you gave hope to me, one example, during one of your sessions you understood that there was great difficulty for helicopter pilots to obtain their regular flight checks as required by CASA. In session you, impressively, made to ask CASA to rectify this glaring wrong. Well, what has happened?
And now we read the latest Statement of Expectations (SOE), obviously written by CASA or at least for the CASA brethren, signed off with indecent haste minutes before Barnaby Joyce took over from M. McCormack, with not one concrete requirement. And yes motherhood is a wonderful institution.
Give us some runs on the board immediately, it’s easy if you can persuade Barnaby. He can change the SOE requiring some exemplary reforms within the next two or three weeks. Independent instructors, private pilot medicals in line with the low weight category (car driver), cancel Cessna SIDs for private operations. Then have Barnaby talk to Peter Dutton and implement the Forsyth recommendation and remove the expensive and ineffective ASIC two yearly imposition and call a moratorium on the further alienation of airport land away from aviation uses.
Give us some real hope and be a hero to thousands of dinkum Aussies who will support you to the hilt.
Kind regards, Sandy Reith.