12-28-2021, 06:51 AM
I haven’t watched the video until now……
The body language is clear……
………The Smug senior management “supporting” their leader reminded me of my experiences dealing with merchant bankers - a lower form of life you will not find.
……Spence struggling with subjects she cannot and will not ever master.
Conclusion: Spence was not appointed as a reformist head kicker, she is expected to be just another time serving ‘’safe pair of hands”. Real leaders don’t do meetings like that.
The question now is what will become of CASA? My gut feel is that they are going to be overtaken by events and will shortly crash, and it will be finally obvious to the general public. It will then be obvious that the defective Aviation Act has allowed the creation of a rotten regulatory environment that supports a rotten institutional culture.
So the question then is does Government do a “slow and clean” fix or a “quick and dirty” fix?
Overtaken by events? Consider what is taking or is going to take management time in no particular order;
- Joyce’s Aviation recovery plan.
- Angel Flight fallout.
- Glen buckley fallout.
- unnamed fallout.
- sport aviation rule reform
- GA Medical reform.
- Flight training, licensing and engineering reform.
- The pressure from the growing Drone industry
- The electric air taxi mob
- modernizing AsA
- the “hollowing out” of GA and the demise of what’s left of aviation support business infrastructure.
……and making progress in all these areas is only possible by amending the byzantine system of aviation regulation we have allowed to be created? Sorry, not possible. The regulations were designed to frustrate reform, not support it. Have a look at the latest incarnation of CAO 95.55 to get the flavor. CSA is unsustainable in its current incarnation.
Excuses will be made, but other regulators seem to deal with these issues in a timely manner; why can’t CASA? Where is our commitment to international best practice? We don’t even benchmark ourselves against other regulators do we?
Somewhere, shortly there is going to what is termed a “come to Jesus” meeting about CASA where ultimatums get given. It then becomes the Ministers and Cabinets problem when CASA can’t deliver - and it can’t, not with the current management, not with its current culture, not with its current structure, not with the current Act and not with current regulations.
If I was a CASA manager, I’d be running for the exit.
The body language is clear……
………The Smug senior management “supporting” their leader reminded me of my experiences dealing with merchant bankers - a lower form of life you will not find.
……Spence struggling with subjects she cannot and will not ever master.
Conclusion: Spence was not appointed as a reformist head kicker, she is expected to be just another time serving ‘’safe pair of hands”. Real leaders don’t do meetings like that.
The question now is what will become of CASA? My gut feel is that they are going to be overtaken by events and will shortly crash, and it will be finally obvious to the general public. It will then be obvious that the defective Aviation Act has allowed the creation of a rotten regulatory environment that supports a rotten institutional culture.
So the question then is does Government do a “slow and clean” fix or a “quick and dirty” fix?
Overtaken by events? Consider what is taking or is going to take management time in no particular order;
- Joyce’s Aviation recovery plan.
- Angel Flight fallout.
- Glen buckley fallout.
- unnamed fallout.
- sport aviation rule reform
- GA Medical reform.
- Flight training, licensing and engineering reform.
- The pressure from the growing Drone industry
- The electric air taxi mob
- modernizing AsA
- the “hollowing out” of GA and the demise of what’s left of aviation support business infrastructure.
……and making progress in all these areas is only possible by amending the byzantine system of aviation regulation we have allowed to be created? Sorry, not possible. The regulations were designed to frustrate reform, not support it. Have a look at the latest incarnation of CAO 95.55 to get the flavor. CSA is unsustainable in its current incarnation.
Excuses will be made, but other regulators seem to deal with these issues in a timely manner; why can’t CASA? Where is our commitment to international best practice? We don’t even benchmark ourselves against other regulators do we?
Somewhere, shortly there is going to what is termed a “come to Jesus” meeting about CASA where ultimatums get given. It then becomes the Ministers and Cabinets problem when CASA can’t deliver - and it can’t, not with the current management, not with its current culture, not with its current structure, not with the current Act and not with current regulations.
If I was a CASA manager, I’d be running for the exit.