01-27-2022, 10:28 AM
“CASA was consulted in finalising the SoE.”
It would be most interesting to compare the draft going to CASA for its opinions and the ‘finalised’ version, because no prizes for guessing that the de facto CEO made every effort to emasculate the intent and I think he has succeeded.
It’s just fact that the same overriding consideration, CASA’s unique power of justification for its every action, is in its interpretation of safety. This remains its prime obligation. Safety is impossible to quantify, as is risk. Risk itself and ways to regulate for risk are judgements formed from opinions, opinions distilled from data, experience and consensus, changing along with technology, sentiment and other variables like cost of compliance and it should be what politicians judge to be acceptable to the public. Unfortunately Parliament has delegated its power to an unelected corporation which will look after itself in every way possible.
So it boils down to who has the power and has that changed?
To my mind until the Act is changed to delete safety as the overriding consideration (recognising safety as being an outcome of a healthy free enterprise aviation sector) and CASA is absorbed into a Department of Government then all the good intentions will largely remain moot.
It would be most interesting to compare the draft going to CASA for its opinions and the ‘finalised’ version, because no prizes for guessing that the de facto CEO made every effort to emasculate the intent and I think he has succeeded.
It’s just fact that the same overriding consideration, CASA’s unique power of justification for its every action, is in its interpretation of safety. This remains its prime obligation. Safety is impossible to quantify, as is risk. Risk itself and ways to regulate for risk are judgements formed from opinions, opinions distilled from data, experience and consensus, changing along with technology, sentiment and other variables like cost of compliance and it should be what politicians judge to be acceptable to the public. Unfortunately Parliament has delegated its power to an unelected corporation which will look after itself in every way possible.
So it boils down to who has the power and has that changed?
To my mind until the Act is changed to delete safety as the overriding consideration (recognising safety as being an outcome of a healthy free enterprise aviation sector) and CASA is absorbed into a Department of Government then all the good intentions will largely remain moot.