10-12-2023, 10:01 AM
Let’s not forget the primary reason for a substantial part of the workload: CASA has built a regulatory regime which is a symbiosis between CASA and ‘industry’, requiring a ream of certificates, permissions, approvals, authorisations, licences, ratings, endorsements and exemptions in order to function lawfully, and CASA charges fees for it all. This sentence and the word “legally” says it all:
“[P]lanes across the nation could soon have trouble taking off if the Albanese government can’t come to an agreement over sufficient staffing and training levels for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), which keeps aircraft legally flying.”
And then there’s the self-perpetuating workload created by the sheer volume of regulatory material and the consequential errors and unintended consequences which CASA then has to address.
“[P]lanes across the nation could soon have trouble taking off if the Albanese government can’t come to an agreement over sufficient staffing and training levels for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), which keeps aircraft legally flying.”
And then there’s the self-perpetuating workload created by the sheer volume of regulatory material and the consequential errors and unintended consequences which CASA then has to address.