In the eye of the beholder.
Much about Sen. Sterle is to be admired and he has done his best with matters aeronautical. Industry lost a great advocate to the truck driving world, pity his father was not a pilot and had taught him tradecraft and a deep understanding of the way thing are. Then he could very easily draw the parallels between the incident under discussion and a couple of very similar situations related to air operations.
Firstly, he will probably note how difficult it is to get fellow politicians interested in his righteous cause. They do not understand the implications and even if they were vaguely aware, to actually get something done is border line impossible.
Secondly, he is about to receive an object lesson from the ‘crats who run the various ‘layers’ that must be gotten through, commonwealth, then state, then local. The lesson of course is it’s damn near impossible to find a donkey to pin a tail onto, unless it’s some hapless politician. Enter party and State politics, with little hope of reform except even more rules and restrictive law, which only penalise the ‘good guys’.
Thirdly; he is now dealing with the Chameleon of ‘safety’; not the practical man’s version where common or garden sense prevails, but that of the associated money spinner types where safety equals a gold seam.
Perhaps Glen Sterle can now understand how Part 61 (and others) are as outrageous and ridicules to us as a 42 ton truck, stuck before a bridge, no one capable of backing it up or decoupling it and one bloke buggering off before the shit hits the fan, is to him.
Welcome to the IOS Glen; I propose the good Senator be included in the IOS hall of fame and be given the combination to the Tim Tam box. Well done that man, Bravo.
Toot toot...
PS. One good rant deserves another, see - HERE -
Much about Sen. Sterle is to be admired and he has done his best with matters aeronautical. Industry lost a great advocate to the truck driving world, pity his father was not a pilot and had taught him tradecraft and a deep understanding of the way thing are. Then he could very easily draw the parallels between the incident under discussion and a couple of very similar situations related to air operations.
Firstly, he will probably note how difficult it is to get fellow politicians interested in his righteous cause. They do not understand the implications and even if they were vaguely aware, to actually get something done is border line impossible.
Secondly, he is about to receive an object lesson from the ‘crats who run the various ‘layers’ that must be gotten through, commonwealth, then state, then local. The lesson of course is it’s damn near impossible to find a donkey to pin a tail onto, unless it’s some hapless politician. Enter party and State politics, with little hope of reform except even more rules and restrictive law, which only penalise the ‘good guys’.
Thirdly; he is now dealing with the Chameleon of ‘safety’; not the practical man’s version where common or garden sense prevails, but that of the associated money spinner types where safety equals a gold seam.
Perhaps Glen Sterle can now understand how Part 61 (and others) are as outrageous and ridicules to us as a 42 ton truck, stuck before a bridge, no one capable of backing it up or decoupling it and one bloke buggering off before the shit hits the fan, is to him.
Welcome to the IOS Glen; I propose the good Senator be included in the IOS hall of fame and be given the combination to the Tim Tam box. Well done that man, Bravo.
Toot toot...
PS. One good rant deserves another, see - HERE -