Kharon: "It could be argued that the reverse is true - fear of rule breaking has created a picture of paper compliance, increased cunning and a wall of silence. Pilots afraid to 'confess' - operators spending more time arse covering and paying lip service - spending on administration not maintenance, training and education. "
From my untutored observations, that is exactly where we are now. People are focused on staying legal, but being legal does not guarantee that all risks are adequately managed because lawyers can't possibly foresee, let alone regulate, the infinite combinations of circumstances leading to an unsafe situation.
A cynic would say that CASA doesnt care about this because its mission is to avoid Government liability for accident and a multiplicity of regulations protects it by providing a "who cooda known? defence.
My old Headmaster, bless him, always thundered the most important school rule which trumped all our efforts to refute: "A breach of common sense is a breach of school rules" - we were punished accordingly. Would that CASA did likewise.
From my untutored observations, that is exactly where we are now. People are focused on staying legal, but being legal does not guarantee that all risks are adequately managed because lawyers can't possibly foresee, let alone regulate, the infinite combinations of circumstances leading to an unsafe situation.
A cynic would say that CASA doesnt care about this because its mission is to avoid Government liability for accident and a multiplicity of regulations protects it by providing a "who cooda known? defence.
My old Headmaster, bless him, always thundered the most important school rule which trumped all our efforts to refute: "A breach of common sense is a breach of school rules" - we were punished accordingly. Would that CASA did likewise.