Had to smile.
Took a peep at the UP thread on the recent fatal Mooney crash. The mountains west of Coffs down to the Hunter Valley are not, by world standards ‘high’. But that is a relative term; low cloud and rising terrain are a potential trap for all aircraft, no matter the operating class. Anyway – Sunfish had a mini rant about this and that – but, for mine, brought out one, single point worthy of serious consideration:-
Sunny - And another thing...,,CASA and their lapdog, the ATSB, sunk the slipper into Angel Flight for far less reason. Where is the special report into East Coast transit airspace and procedures that force small aircraft into flying over water or mountains instead of along the coast with at least the possibility of a safe forced landing? More people have been killed by the current East Coast airspace rules than Angel Flight ever did.
A fair call and spot on. It could be taken a step further by a responsible independent ATSB. Instead of the hysterical, fatuous, flawed attack on CSF operations; why is there not an ‘in-depth’ study of VFR into IMC, designed to reduce (within tenable limits) the annual carnage caused by this Oh so preventable accident scenario?
Gods know what the Angel Flight debacle has cost; in real time and money, Senators by the hour ain’t cheap. No one minds the money being spent when there is a ‘result’. But, to see the money squandered on a report and rules change, which affects SFA in the way of improved safety outcomes, is disgraceful. When you start to add up the cost of ‘the investigation’, the cost of CASA dreaming up bloody silly rules, the price tag for production of same, the cost of a Senate inquiry, the cost of generating a disallowance motion, the cost of parliament and the secretariat: all required to support a stupid response to a nonsensical analysis, you have to wonder at the value of the resultant mess. What has been achieved? SFA is the answer. Disgusting and beneath contempt.
Anyway, Onya Sunny, gold star for a neat bomb, in a nutshell.
Toot – toot
Took a peep at the UP thread on the recent fatal Mooney crash. The mountains west of Coffs down to the Hunter Valley are not, by world standards ‘high’. But that is a relative term; low cloud and rising terrain are a potential trap for all aircraft, no matter the operating class. Anyway – Sunfish had a mini rant about this and that – but, for mine, brought out one, single point worthy of serious consideration:-
Sunny - And another thing...,,CASA and their lapdog, the ATSB, sunk the slipper into Angel Flight for far less reason. Where is the special report into East Coast transit airspace and procedures that force small aircraft into flying over water or mountains instead of along the coast with at least the possibility of a safe forced landing? More people have been killed by the current East Coast airspace rules than Angel Flight ever did.
A fair call and spot on. It could be taken a step further by a responsible independent ATSB. Instead of the hysterical, fatuous, flawed attack on CSF operations; why is there not an ‘in-depth’ study of VFR into IMC, designed to reduce (within tenable limits) the annual carnage caused by this Oh so preventable accident scenario?
Gods know what the Angel Flight debacle has cost; in real time and money, Senators by the hour ain’t cheap. No one minds the money being spent when there is a ‘result’. But, to see the money squandered on a report and rules change, which affects SFA in the way of improved safety outcomes, is disgraceful. When you start to add up the cost of ‘the investigation’, the cost of CASA dreaming up bloody silly rules, the price tag for production of same, the cost of a Senate inquiry, the cost of generating a disallowance motion, the cost of parliament and the secretariat: all required to support a stupid response to a nonsensical analysis, you have to wonder at the value of the resultant mess. What has been achieved? SFA is the answer. Disgusting and beneath contempt.
Anyway, Onya Sunny, gold star for a neat bomb, in a nutshell.
Toot – toot