12-11-2021, 07:13 AM
Sandy, the Ministers lack of control is a feature, not a bug. CASA is a Faustian bargain. It gets to do what it likes (its unaccountable) and is paid a reasonable amount to do so. In return, the Government and Minister of the day cannot be held liable when the inevitable happens and a Qantas, Virgin or other heavy goes in with huge loss of life.
To put it another way, if Joyce asserts control of CASA, then he wears liability for all accidents that occur during his tenure.
CASA protects itself internally by writing complex and inconsistent regulations taht create a climate ideal for the diffusion of responsibility defence tactic in case of accident. This was on display after the Norfolk Island ditching where the ATSB, AsA and CASA combined with the support of the pilots employer to hide their own responsibility for the accident and instead blame the pilot.
In the case of the Ansett failure, the ATSB conspired with CASA to obscure CASA's total failure to supervise or detect that anything was amiss prior to the "surprise discovery" that the B767 fleet was not airworthy followed by the shocking revelation that the airworthiness of the rest of their fleet couldn't be guaranteed. To this day, nobody has asked the question: "Why was the Ansett mess not discovered by CASA?".
My spies tell me nothing has changed. There is not a snowballs chance in hell that CASA could or do regulate Qantas for example, CASA lacks the technical capacity and hasn't had it for years, perhaps even for decades, let alone having the will to take on such a well connected political beast. We just have to pray that QF, VB and their ilk are following Boeing and Airbus instructions to the letter. As a pilot friend told me "when CASA appears, we tell them BS and they go away again. They wouldn't know anything about our operation".
Nope. CASA amuses itself by prosecuting hang glider pilots and persecuting the GA industry, it is out of its depth anywhere else. Cue "The Bold Gendarmes".
To put it another way, if Joyce asserts control of CASA, then he wears liability for all accidents that occur during his tenure.
CASA protects itself internally by writing complex and inconsistent regulations taht create a climate ideal for the diffusion of responsibility defence tactic in case of accident. This was on display after the Norfolk Island ditching where the ATSB, AsA and CASA combined with the support of the pilots employer to hide their own responsibility for the accident and instead blame the pilot.
In the case of the Ansett failure, the ATSB conspired with CASA to obscure CASA's total failure to supervise or detect that anything was amiss prior to the "surprise discovery" that the B767 fleet was not airworthy followed by the shocking revelation that the airworthiness of the rest of their fleet couldn't be guaranteed. To this day, nobody has asked the question: "Why was the Ansett mess not discovered by CASA?".
My spies tell me nothing has changed. There is not a snowballs chance in hell that CASA could or do regulate Qantas for example, CASA lacks the technical capacity and hasn't had it for years, perhaps even for decades, let alone having the will to take on such a well connected political beast. We just have to pray that QF, VB and their ilk are following Boeing and Airbus instructions to the letter. As a pilot friend told me "when CASA appears, we tell them BS and they go away again. They wouldn't know anything about our operation".
Nope. CASA amuses itself by prosecuting hang glider pilots and persecuting the GA industry, it is out of its depth anywhere else. Cue "The Bold Gendarmes".