01-16-2019, 04:55 PM
CAsA- The biggest joke in aviation
From the article;
“Planning documents also released under FOI that the DFO sits just 128 metres from the centre of the runway”.
Unbelievable that this could even occur. It is abhorrent that this building received any form of approval or sign off in the first place. And it is a safety issue that any person flying in and out of Essendon should consider. The current building location poses minimal risk when all goes perfectly in the air. But when the shit hits the fan, which it did, these people may not have died had the building not been where it shouldn’t have been. 128m from the centre line? Seriously? How big are the aircraft using that runway? How strong are Melbourne’s winter crosswinds? How easy is it for an aircraft to become unstable and drift a few hundred metres left or right of the centre line during bad weather, an engine out, or a stall???? Talk about a reduced safety margin.
And this;
“The AFAP said that when the DFO was approved in 2004, CASA's standards allowed the runway to have a strip width of less than 300 metres, but only if a detailed safety case was put forward and all relevant stakeholders were consulted.
The pilots body has been unable to access that safety case, with an FOI request met with the response that there was no such document. CASA and the airport could not say if one was ever produced”.
That’s right. That’s because no safety case was submitted, no robust risk assessment undertaken, a simple and quick sign off was granted. It would be interesting to know if there are any connections between Local, State and Federal Government employees, the land owner, the DFO developer and any other party. This development gained approval too quickly. Was there some pork barrelling going on? Perhaps Council or State elections? Paper bags for anybody perhaps?
And this;
Letters from CASA to the airport released under FOI say it did not have time to check the DFO plans. “Gathering the information required for the authority’s assessment of whether every item in a Draft Master Plan will be compliant with civil aviation safety requirements would be time-consuming and expensive,” one letter says.
Well there you go! The Big R Regulator has all the time in the world to bully industry, pick at nonchalant pithy little items in an Ops Manual, but holy shit when it comes to putting a big concrete public shopping complex within 128 metres of the runway centre line of a large size airport the CAsA don’t have time to assess it!!!! Pure gold. But disgusting. What the effing hell are we taxpayers paying these muppets to actually do???
Carmody, you’re the CEO mate. You are sitting in the chair. You own this. You need to go!!
TICK TOCK
From the article;
“Planning documents also released under FOI that the DFO sits just 128 metres from the centre of the runway”.
Unbelievable that this could even occur. It is abhorrent that this building received any form of approval or sign off in the first place. And it is a safety issue that any person flying in and out of Essendon should consider. The current building location poses minimal risk when all goes perfectly in the air. But when the shit hits the fan, which it did, these people may not have died had the building not been where it shouldn’t have been. 128m from the centre line? Seriously? How big are the aircraft using that runway? How strong are Melbourne’s winter crosswinds? How easy is it for an aircraft to become unstable and drift a few hundred metres left or right of the centre line during bad weather, an engine out, or a stall???? Talk about a reduced safety margin.
And this;
“The AFAP said that when the DFO was approved in 2004, CASA's standards allowed the runway to have a strip width of less than 300 metres, but only if a detailed safety case was put forward and all relevant stakeholders were consulted.
The pilots body has been unable to access that safety case, with an FOI request met with the response that there was no such document. CASA and the airport could not say if one was ever produced”.
That’s right. That’s because no safety case was submitted, no robust risk assessment undertaken, a simple and quick sign off was granted. It would be interesting to know if there are any connections between Local, State and Federal Government employees, the land owner, the DFO developer and any other party. This development gained approval too quickly. Was there some pork barrelling going on? Perhaps Council or State elections? Paper bags for anybody perhaps?
And this;
Letters from CASA to the airport released under FOI say it did not have time to check the DFO plans. “Gathering the information required for the authority’s assessment of whether every item in a Draft Master Plan will be compliant with civil aviation safety requirements would be time-consuming and expensive,” one letter says.
Well there you go! The Big R Regulator has all the time in the world to bully industry, pick at nonchalant pithy little items in an Ops Manual, but holy shit when it comes to putting a big concrete public shopping complex within 128 metres of the runway centre line of a large size airport the CAsA don’t have time to assess it!!!! Pure gold. But disgusting. What the effing hell are we taxpayers paying these muppets to actually do???
Carmody, you’re the CEO mate. You are sitting in the chair. You own this. You need to go!!
TICK TOCK