Dear Senator McDonald. etc......
THUD! - 269 pages, a whopping 13.7 MB of CASA defence against and reasoning for their treatment of CSF operations lands in the McDolittle Inquiry mail box. You can download the entire epistle from the inquiry submissions page; and, should the mood move you, read the entire thing.
Pagani et al have a mountain to climb and very little gear to do that with; not an enviable task. There are some carefully dressed up anomalies and cleverly obfuscated furphy's within the document and some very 'artistic' stretches; all par for the CASA course. There is some devilment in the detail, and that is the hard part to beat.
Unlikely, but even if time, money and interest were made available (lots and lots of each) it would all boil down two opinions - the legal v the 'operational' (for want of better). Two separate mind sets, juxtaposed. Both, in their own way 'correct' either side able to fight their corner 'till the cows come home; without a clear resolution, acceptable to both sides.
Yet, resolved it must be. But how and by whom? Solomon departed the fix donkeys years ago, without a replacement unit. That leaves a bunch of Senators to adjudicate on some pretty tangled legislation managed by those who wrote that legislation and the resources to support their case for as long as it takes. That stand alone is a discouragement, but can you imagine the furore if CASA was overruled and there was another CSF fatal; I can.
But, for my two bobs worth; neither side have nailed down the real cause of this bun fight; nor made any attempt to eradicate the long standing reason for both CSF fatal accident - VFR qualified pilots operating into IMC; and nothing inadvertent about it; no excuses.
There is nothing in the artful 269 page confection which suggests a remedy for this known killer; you can throw 'learned opinion' legal jargon and unlimited money at the CSF operation argument; but I'd bet good Ale that there will be another VFR into IMC before the 'he said - she said' argy bargy is even close to resolution. This committee needs to focus on cause, effect and remedy - same as any other Safety Management System would do; not the fine legal points of misdirection.
There; I feel better now: back in my box? - Right then..
Toot - toot.
THUD! - 269 pages, a whopping 13.7 MB of CASA defence against and reasoning for their treatment of CSF operations lands in the McDolittle Inquiry mail box. You can download the entire epistle from the inquiry submissions page; and, should the mood move you, read the entire thing.
Pagani et al have a mountain to climb and very little gear to do that with; not an enviable task. There are some carefully dressed up anomalies and cleverly obfuscated furphy's within the document and some very 'artistic' stretches; all par for the CASA course. There is some devilment in the detail, and that is the hard part to beat.
Unlikely, but even if time, money and interest were made available (lots and lots of each) it would all boil down two opinions - the legal v the 'operational' (for want of better). Two separate mind sets, juxtaposed. Both, in their own way 'correct' either side able to fight their corner 'till the cows come home; without a clear resolution, acceptable to both sides.
Yet, resolved it must be. But how and by whom? Solomon departed the fix donkeys years ago, without a replacement unit. That leaves a bunch of Senators to adjudicate on some pretty tangled legislation managed by those who wrote that legislation and the resources to support their case for as long as it takes. That stand alone is a discouragement, but can you imagine the furore if CASA was overruled and there was another CSF fatal; I can.
But, for my two bobs worth; neither side have nailed down the real cause of this bun fight; nor made any attempt to eradicate the long standing reason for both CSF fatal accident - VFR qualified pilots operating into IMC; and nothing inadvertent about it; no excuses.
There is nothing in the artful 269 page confection which suggests a remedy for this known killer; you can throw 'learned opinion' legal jargon and unlimited money at the CSF operation argument; but I'd bet good Ale that there will be another VFR into IMC before the 'he said - she said' argy bargy is even close to resolution. This committee needs to focus on cause, effect and remedy - same as any other Safety Management System would do; not the fine legal points of misdirection.
There; I feel better now: back in my box? - Right then..
Toot - toot.