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AMROBA - "MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY!" - Part III

Via amroba.org.au :

MAYDAY – MAYDAY

Senator Patrick has called a Mayday meeting on Sunday, May 1, to propose a rescue program for the survivors of the crash caused by the creation of the Civil Aviation Act and continual regulatory changes that have increased costs and the survivors from 1988 continue to struggle to recuperate. The current, and proposed regulatory system, is not fit for purpose – every inquiry into civil aviation since CAA was created have made similar recommendations but nothing changes. Why? Is it government or is it CAA/CASA that has caused general aviation to crash? Civil aviation just hopes this RRAT Interim Report creates change to benefit industry growth.

• Have you looked at Section 98 of the Civil Aviation Act lately.
• Compare that with New Zealand’s Section 28 of the New Zealand Act
• or look at the US Aviation Act §44701. General requirements.

Without doubt, the FAA has the safest approach that we should align our Act with. See Item 2 where we discuss the effect of an election and what we should have in accordance with the Act.

“Title 49 §106. Federal Aviation Administration
(a) The Federal Aviation Administration is an administration in the Department of Transportation.”

Maybe CASA should be an “administration in the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communication” similar to the FAA. Regulatory development would be done by the Minister’s portfolio department, in conjunction with other government departments and agencies, because of inadvertent damage that can happen when not done properly. Great example is CASA trying to be an ‘educator’ and approve Education Department’s Recognised Training Organisations..

1. Government experiment has failed for 32 years.

Civil Aviation Act © for the purpose of carrying out and giving effect to the provisions of the
Chicago Convention relating to safety;

All provisions of the Convention are related to global aviation safety standards and they are not
as confusing as general aviation and engineering CASRs that haven’t even been copied correctly
from other nations regulations.

2. Time has run out – an election at wrong time

Over two decades back, it was recognised that general aviation and engineering design,
maintenance, manufacture and technical training was not producing growth in general aviation
and engineering fields. Once again, the industry has had another inquiry make recommendations
to address the crash of general aviation and a Statement of Expectations that heads reform in the
right direction and an election is called. This means all government departments are in ‘stop
mode for 6 – 9 months.

3. Selecting a LAME, FBO MRO or a Repair Station (NATA)

The National Air Transportation Association provides a good insight to the FBO/MRO
system. We had this system with one difference, the directly supervised maintenance
organisation was approved to operate to requirements specified in Civil Aviation Orders.

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