Oh dear! With the greatest respect to the esteemed Aunties and the our brave champion Ben Morgan (whom the gods protect) I respectfully submit you are making an assumption that is horribly wrong and as a result making an argument that not only will do the industry no good, but will destroy the little bit that still succeeds in staying alive. To put that another way, misery loves company.
That dangers of the assumption you are making is known to any seven year old child: “Mum! Why is Billy allowed to stay up an extra hour when you just told me to go to bed right now!” Mum: “Yes, your right! Billy go to bed right now too!”. It is child’s play for the great and good in CASA to thank Mr. Morgan for raising this subject and with a single stroke of a pen, remove RAA’s privilege of self certification. Problem solved Mr. Morgan! It’s also the Australian way. You are all equally miserable now! It’s that good old Australian ruling class mentality - keep the convicts suppressed.
Quoting Mr. Morgan: “It really does not take a genius to work out that CASA is actively discriminating against RPL/PPL holders and that it has delivered seriously anti-competitive regulation to drive it.
I have all but given up counting how many times I have asked successive CASA Directors of Aviation Safety, one very simple but vitally important question; “Yes or No? Is it safe for a pilot to fly recreationally with one passenger outside of controlled airspace, in aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight of 600kgs, using a self-certification pilot medical?”
We all know the answer is an obvious YES!”
…..Actually Ladies and gentlemen, the answer is a resounding NO! According to the accident stats I believe it may not be safe at all.
Says CASA; “Thank you for bringing this state of affairs to our notice Mr. Morgan. Yes we are discriminating and it is anti competitive and we don’t want that do we?
‘RAA were granted this privilege years ago on the basis that their pathetic aircraft and cretinous excuses for pilots were not REAL AVIATORS and were beneath our notice - a mere bagatelle, a mosquito swarm of buzzing lawnmower engines and fabric.” “ you ask the question are they safe? No compared to you VH guys and the more modern RAA aircraft look suspiciously fast and sleek even if they do only weigh 600kg”. “So yes, safety never sleeps, these RAA people need a good rogering, and we are just the people to give it to them!”. ’Don’t let the door hit you on your way out”.
To put that another way, if I was CASA, I would decide to hold an internal review. That would take two years and surprise, allegedly find a certain level of non compliance and if I couldn’t weave into the recommendations: mandatory covid vaccination, compulsory digital health records for all pilots and CASA automatic access to the same along with CASA surveillance of your pharmaceutical prescription benefit records and access to your private health fund record and any criminal proceedings then as an administrator I would hang my head in shame. If that was to happen and considering AVMEDS ‘form” as described in evidence by various DAMES and as catalogued in the AAT appeals, self certification would be meaningless wouldn’t it? RAA Self certification is already under threat. I think I read that regulations have recently changed to deny anyone who CASA has grounded from sneaking in the back door so to speak by joining RAA.
Don’t bag RAA to advance your argument, like Billy, that way we all lose.
That dangers of the assumption you are making is known to any seven year old child: “Mum! Why is Billy allowed to stay up an extra hour when you just told me to go to bed right now!” Mum: “Yes, your right! Billy go to bed right now too!”. It is child’s play for the great and good in CASA to thank Mr. Morgan for raising this subject and with a single stroke of a pen, remove RAA’s privilege of self certification. Problem solved Mr. Morgan! It’s also the Australian way. You are all equally miserable now! It’s that good old Australian ruling class mentality - keep the convicts suppressed.
Quoting Mr. Morgan: “It really does not take a genius to work out that CASA is actively discriminating against RPL/PPL holders and that it has delivered seriously anti-competitive regulation to drive it.
I have all but given up counting how many times I have asked successive CASA Directors of Aviation Safety, one very simple but vitally important question; “Yes or No? Is it safe for a pilot to fly recreationally with one passenger outside of controlled airspace, in aircraft with a maximum takeoff weight of 600kgs, using a self-certification pilot medical?”
We all know the answer is an obvious YES!”
…..Actually Ladies and gentlemen, the answer is a resounding NO! According to the accident stats I believe it may not be safe at all.
Says CASA; “Thank you for bringing this state of affairs to our notice Mr. Morgan. Yes we are discriminating and it is anti competitive and we don’t want that do we?
‘RAA were granted this privilege years ago on the basis that their pathetic aircraft and cretinous excuses for pilots were not REAL AVIATORS and were beneath our notice - a mere bagatelle, a mosquito swarm of buzzing lawnmower engines and fabric.” “ you ask the question are they safe? No compared to you VH guys and the more modern RAA aircraft look suspiciously fast and sleek even if they do only weigh 600kg”. “So yes, safety never sleeps, these RAA people need a good rogering, and we are just the people to give it to them!”. ’Don’t let the door hit you on your way out”.
To put that another way, if I was CASA, I would decide to hold an internal review. That would take two years and surprise, allegedly find a certain level of non compliance and if I couldn’t weave into the recommendations: mandatory covid vaccination, compulsory digital health records for all pilots and CASA automatic access to the same along with CASA surveillance of your pharmaceutical prescription benefit records and access to your private health fund record and any criminal proceedings then as an administrator I would hang my head in shame. If that was to happen and considering AVMEDS ‘form” as described in evidence by various DAMES and as catalogued in the AAT appeals, self certification would be meaningless wouldn’t it? RAA Self certification is already under threat. I think I read that regulations have recently changed to deny anyone who CASA has grounded from sneaking in the back door so to speak by joining RAA.
Don’t bag RAA to advance your argument, like Billy, that way we all lose.