Time – Gentlemen please. (a twiddle of no import).
While he government is flapping about, trying to pull up it’s pants and find belts and braces to cover their exposed nether regions, the Senate inquiry clock is still ticking.
Jaded, disillusioned and as fed up with making submission to yet another inquiry, which will, in all probability, go the same way as the many others on which hopes have been pinned, industry must make the effort.
But, what can be said more than that which has been reiterated, over and over again over the decades? Yet nothing seems to ever change for the better. What to do?
Since being press ganged into the AP/PAIN set up, I have, on my own account, read through many (a great many) previous submissions to inquiry – from both sides of the fence, (or the great divide) – probably too many. For my sins and for P2’s heinous crimes against golf balls, we have now read through many Coroners inquiry and rulings, for we believe that is where the real skeletons are buried. We have also carefully studied ATSB response and investigation to accident, when they eventually appear. It has been a big job to define, clearly, that which was already universally known. But I digress – the point.
In primus, the great majority of submission made to inquiry are first class. Cleary written, eloquently expressed opinion, supportable fact and unimpeachable, mostly backed by impeccable operational logic. To ‘industry’ they are rock solid demands (albeit subtly phrased) for real reform, across the spectrum from legislation through to surveillance and approval. It begs a question. Why despite all, has nothing really changed?
That, boys and girls is the $64K question – ain’t it.
One of the great problems is ‘time passing’ – the new generations of aircrew coming through have now been brought up to accept the way things are – new chums simply accept, as gospel, an aberration like Part 61 as ‘the way things are’ – they know nothing else. Far too busy to check the systems employed by Canada, the USA or NZ – they just put up with the incubus. Same-same flight operations, they just groan, shake their heads and get on with it. This is particularly true of the big commercial operations; the costs imposed simply passed along to the consumer. These are significant costs, Part 61 as an example has added a real impost to operational budgets – to what end? ‘Operational safety’ they say. I say bollocks. There are over a hundred, identified ‘costs’ the Australian system Part 61 imposes which are simply not apparent in the systems of first world administrations; yet their safety record is better than Australia’s, despite our low terrain profile and mostly benign weather conditions.
Aye well, back to the beginning – submissions. One thing clearly visible in the majority of entries to the Senate is the polite, proper, carefully phrased, non combative method of expressing a view. I reckon we should just drop the carefully phrased, cleverly parsed wording and just tell ‘em ‘how it really is’ – in plain terms, same as you would in the hanger or the Pub. You could draft a concise submission in about two minutes, with just a simple sentence or two.
Salutation.
We’re buggered up – getting more so every day. Do something, the Kiwi’s did and look at them go.
L&K
Disgruntled Angry Citizen.
Save a lot of time and effort – for precisely the same result. Toot - toot.
While he government is flapping about, trying to pull up it’s pants and find belts and braces to cover their exposed nether regions, the Senate inquiry clock is still ticking.
Jaded, disillusioned and as fed up with making submission to yet another inquiry, which will, in all probability, go the same way as the many others on which hopes have been pinned, industry must make the effort.
But, what can be said more than that which has been reiterated, over and over again over the decades? Yet nothing seems to ever change for the better. What to do?
Since being press ganged into the AP/PAIN set up, I have, on my own account, read through many (a great many) previous submissions to inquiry – from both sides of the fence, (or the great divide) – probably too many. For my sins and for P2’s heinous crimes against golf balls, we have now read through many Coroners inquiry and rulings, for we believe that is where the real skeletons are buried. We have also carefully studied ATSB response and investigation to accident, when they eventually appear. It has been a big job to define, clearly, that which was already universally known. But I digress – the point.
In primus, the great majority of submission made to inquiry are first class. Cleary written, eloquently expressed opinion, supportable fact and unimpeachable, mostly backed by impeccable operational logic. To ‘industry’ they are rock solid demands (albeit subtly phrased) for real reform, across the spectrum from legislation through to surveillance and approval. It begs a question. Why despite all, has nothing really changed?
That, boys and girls is the $64K question – ain’t it.
One of the great problems is ‘time passing’ – the new generations of aircrew coming through have now been brought up to accept the way things are – new chums simply accept, as gospel, an aberration like Part 61 as ‘the way things are’ – they know nothing else. Far too busy to check the systems employed by Canada, the USA or NZ – they just put up with the incubus. Same-same flight operations, they just groan, shake their heads and get on with it. This is particularly true of the big commercial operations; the costs imposed simply passed along to the consumer. These are significant costs, Part 61 as an example has added a real impost to operational budgets – to what end? ‘Operational safety’ they say. I say bollocks. There are over a hundred, identified ‘costs’ the Australian system Part 61 imposes which are simply not apparent in the systems of first world administrations; yet their safety record is better than Australia’s, despite our low terrain profile and mostly benign weather conditions.
Aye well, back to the beginning – submissions. One thing clearly visible in the majority of entries to the Senate is the polite, proper, carefully phrased, non combative method of expressing a view. I reckon we should just drop the carefully phrased, cleverly parsed wording and just tell ‘em ‘how it really is’ – in plain terms, same as you would in the hanger or the Pub. You could draft a concise submission in about two minutes, with just a simple sentence or two.
Salutation.
We’re buggered up – getting more so every day. Do something, the Kiwi’s did and look at them go.
L&K
Disgruntled Angry Citizen.
Save a lot of time and effort – for precisely the same result. Toot - toot.