You aren’t going to get medical self assessment.
CASA has performed a quick swindle and redefined the source of complaint as being about speed of issue , not about jettisoning a pointless bureaucratic farce - that’s why Spence referenced “streamlining medicals”. Furthermore an earlier missive defined the complaint as “healthy pilots find the system slow, etc.” Meaning everyone with a “condition “, which is most, will still be subject to the same BS.
They hope they can placate the pilot group with a few sops to the “healthy” ones while continuing to feed on the rest.
Words matter. Anyone with a shred of Jewish background instinctively knows it and can read between the lines.
As for centralization and decentralization; bureaucrats have played this game for at least 2000 years.The change is both meaningless and pointless. Those expelled from Canberra will feel aggrieved because their “customer” is Spence, the Board and the Minister -those are the people they need to be close to if they want advancement. The last thing bureaucrats want to do is have to talk to the peasants at the outstations.
CASA has performed a quick swindle and redefined the source of complaint as being about speed of issue , not about jettisoning a pointless bureaucratic farce - that’s why Spence referenced “streamlining medicals”. Furthermore an earlier missive defined the complaint as “healthy pilots find the system slow, etc.” Meaning everyone with a “condition “, which is most, will still be subject to the same BS.
They hope they can placate the pilot group with a few sops to the “healthy” ones while continuing to feed on the rest.
Words matter. Anyone with a shred of Jewish background instinctively knows it and can read between the lines.
As for centralization and decentralization; bureaucrats have played this game for at least 2000 years.The change is both meaningless and pointless. Those expelled from Canberra will feel aggrieved because their “customer” is Spence, the Board and the Minister -those are the people they need to be close to if they want advancement. The last thing bureaucrats want to do is have to talk to the peasants at the outstations.