A catch-up read.
Hate playing ‘catch-up’ but (still drug fuzzy) managed to get up to speed on the Essendon DFO imbroglio from the P2 #286 offering. Strangely enough, coming from behind, for once has been of some benefit. It makes you realise just how bloody serious this whole ‘airports’ thing is.
It also makes you realise just how incredibly difficult, if not impossible, it is going to be to ‘get a rope’ on the situation and return to some semblance of control. The cost of regaining that control if (and it’s a big IF) the government ever decided to act is massive. Yet, when you think it through its not just the cost; take the CASA input as a test case. There is a vast gulf between what the public may expect of the pinnacle ‘Aviation Safety’ body and what is actually delivered. The ‘law’ fully supports the CASA ‘hands off’ approach, can you imagine trying to mount a case against CASA which sought to prove that they do indeed have a responsibility to the travelling public using our airports.
I reckon if you asked a punter stood waiting in the long line to gain access to the departure gate if they reckoned the airport was ‘safe’ - “what do you reckon the chances are of an aircraft hitting this terminal?” - they’d give you strange look; then ask “who’s responsible for preventing that?” they’d all say one of two things “CASA or the government”.
Yet here we sit, surrounded by stark evidence to the contrary. The ‘Hinder’ letter but a small indicator of how perverted the spirit and intent of legislation designed to protect Joe Public and his kids, shopping at a DFO built within the confines of an operational runway has become; to point where clearly they are not only unprotected, but callously placed in harms way by the machinations of government agencies which seek only to avoid the responsibility placed on them.
I could, at a pinch, live with that legally authorised dereliction if there was the moral fibre or conscience to provoke some sort of responsibility; if somewhere in the paper work mountain there was a voice to say ‘No, this can’t be allowed’. But there ain’t, is there. The more the attitude become entrenched, the more used to the normalised deviance one becomes, the sop to conscience becomes the drug of choice allowing any and all aberrations’ to pass the good sense test. The Essendon accident is disgusting and demands a full investigation, not likely to happen, those that could bring such a thing into reality are those who would be investigated.
Watch closely as the tried and true allies of time, deflection, dissemble, deniability and deception slowly grind away any and all objections, the cost of any result far outweighing the benefits as new ways of doing the same old thing are developed. It is disgusting, but it remains, repeated history.
A strange situation, where the well being of the Australian public using our airports will, ultimately, depend on the fighting spirit shown by the relatives of a few American citizens, needlessly killed by an irresponsible system of safety management. Shame on Australia: shame.
Selah.
Hate playing ‘catch-up’ but (still drug fuzzy) managed to get up to speed on the Essendon DFO imbroglio from the P2 #286 offering. Strangely enough, coming from behind, for once has been of some benefit. It makes you realise just how bloody serious this whole ‘airports’ thing is.
It also makes you realise just how incredibly difficult, if not impossible, it is going to be to ‘get a rope’ on the situation and return to some semblance of control. The cost of regaining that control if (and it’s a big IF) the government ever decided to act is massive. Yet, when you think it through its not just the cost; take the CASA input as a test case. There is a vast gulf between what the public may expect of the pinnacle ‘Aviation Safety’ body and what is actually delivered. The ‘law’ fully supports the CASA ‘hands off’ approach, can you imagine trying to mount a case against CASA which sought to prove that they do indeed have a responsibility to the travelling public using our airports.
I reckon if you asked a punter stood waiting in the long line to gain access to the departure gate if they reckoned the airport was ‘safe’ - “what do you reckon the chances are of an aircraft hitting this terminal?” - they’d give you strange look; then ask “who’s responsible for preventing that?” they’d all say one of two things “CASA or the government”.
Yet here we sit, surrounded by stark evidence to the contrary. The ‘Hinder’ letter but a small indicator of how perverted the spirit and intent of legislation designed to protect Joe Public and his kids, shopping at a DFO built within the confines of an operational runway has become; to point where clearly they are not only unprotected, but callously placed in harms way by the machinations of government agencies which seek only to avoid the responsibility placed on them.
I could, at a pinch, live with that legally authorised dereliction if there was the moral fibre or conscience to provoke some sort of responsibility; if somewhere in the paper work mountain there was a voice to say ‘No, this can’t be allowed’. But there ain’t, is there. The more the attitude become entrenched, the more used to the normalised deviance one becomes, the sop to conscience becomes the drug of choice allowing any and all aberrations’ to pass the good sense test. The Essendon accident is disgusting and demands a full investigation, not likely to happen, those that could bring such a thing into reality are those who would be investigated.
Watch closely as the tried and true allies of time, deflection, dissemble, deniability and deception slowly grind away any and all objections, the cost of any result far outweighing the benefits as new ways of doing the same old thing are developed. It is disgusting, but it remains, repeated history.
A strange situation, where the well being of the Australian public using our airports will, ultimately, depend on the fighting spirit shown by the relatives of a few American citizens, needlessly killed by an irresponsible system of safety management. Shame on Australia: shame.
Selah.