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KC & PH with a dose of reality and commonsense for BJ -   

Via the latest AMROBA newsletter:

Where is the Government’s Future GA Plan?

The CAA(UK) has a General Aviation Roadmap with a Vision we hope the Australian Government would adopt and implement:

CAA(UK) “We want the UK to be seen as the best place in the world for aviation and this starts at the grassroots. It provides the entry point for careers in aviation, as pilots, engineers, scientists and other highly skilled professions; includes a number of vital businesses and services that are vital to the aviation sector; and is an enabler of innovation. We want GA to be a flourishing, wealth generating and job producing sector of the economy.”

Look back at past Minister’s Statements of Expectations to CASA over decades and ask where are the CAA(UK) expectations to (1) reduce the costs to aviation by implementing outcome based regulations; (2) delegate CASA functions where possible to industry; (3) create aviation business hubs at airports; (4) create direct aircraft related civil aviation jobs; (5) make Australia into a major civil aviation pilot and maintenance training hub; and (6) open foreign civil aviation markets to Australian aviation manufacturers and maintenance services.

You can research Minister’s statements, department/agencies annual reports, previous Inquiries, all stating similar points but they just do not convert into a regulatory framework that would encourage investment, jobs, domestic/international trade and growth.

This is what the regulatory framework should achieve. Why does a government produce a guide to be followed by Departments and Agencies but not apply it to civil aviation regulatory development. The government’s Regulator Performance Framework guide, when applied to CASA’s performance, has not, from an industry viewpoint, met these principles:

Government’s Regulator Performance Framework .

“The Framework will encourage regulators to minimise their impact on those they regulate while still delivering the vital role they have been asked to perform”. Signed Josh Frydenberg.

“Regulatory costs do not just come from the design of the regulations. Poorly administered regulation can impose unnecessary costs that reduce productivity. These costs inevitably flow through to business more widely and to the community even where their initial impact is on a particular business. These costs may negatively impact the viability of domestic businesses, especially those exposed to overseas competition.”

How true, how true, Josh – tell it to the Department/CASA.

CASA self-assesses whether they achieve these KPIs and reports annually. Would industry agree?
AMROBA impression is there is none that could have a yes against it.



After more than 30 years of regulatory framework reform, the system is still not performance based, cost effective, efficient or economic, let alone be safety based.
Is the public service of the opinion that our safe aviation is an unsafe industry? It appears so.

Hawke Report, 2007
“Recommendation 1: The Minister and CASA commit to achieving completion of the development of the priority Regulatory Parts by submitting all drafting instructions to OLDP by the end of 2008 and full implementation of these Parts by 2011”. (A decade later and still not done)
“Recommendation 15: The Taskforce agreed that Australia should continue to benchmark and harmonise with other leading aviation countries in relation to new technologies, subject to risk and cost-benefit considerations. Consideration should also be given to the ability of operators to absorb the costs associated with these technologies and what initiatives might be available to minimise cost impacts.” (Not Harmonised and industry cannot absorb the costs)
So why is the US FAR system so cost effective and safe?
Why won’t CASA adopt the FAR System?

And from Phil Hurst and the AAAA's, yet another dose of reality and commonsense, via the McDolittle GA inquiry today:

Ref: 12.1 Supplementary to submission 12 (PDF 461 KB) & Today's NT GA inquiry Public Hearing in pictures.

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