Short diversion.
Had Glen Sterle (legend) been born a pilot, instead of a ‘Truckie’ I reckon the aviation industry would be better off today. The parallels between the two industries, particularly the ‘non-airline’ side, are remarkable. Sterle gets it – he just needs to join a few more dots and he will see that. Quick Q&A; for a CF, to which industry are the following quotes related?
Senator STERLE: Well, we were talking about chain of responsibility when I was playing in that area too, so it would be at least 20 years now, and that has not gone anywhere. Is there any great news you have for me on chain of responsibility?
Senator STERLE: We have had decades of this sort of research that has been going on. Can you tell me what this new research is going to find in fatigue management that we do not already know? And I am sure that Senator Back could go back to the days when he was an employer and say that we were talking about this sort of stuff.
Senator STERLE: I think this should send an absolute shiver through the industry. We have got 11 or 12 hours on the eastern seaboard—different in Queensland, different in the Northern Territory, different in WA, and yet there is a group of experts, and part of that group of experts is, you said, industry stakeholders or industry organisations?
I have often wondered, since the Pel-Air inquiry, why the Senate recommendations had little to no effect. The recommendations were ‘deep and meaningful’. It’s only when you take the time to consider departments, other than aviation, that you see a pattern emerging. The infamous “it is one opinion” restated, in various forms, over and over again gives you the clues needed. The Senators who actually care about (rather than score political points off) a subject are every bit as frustrated as we, ‘the people’ are. What a game is Estimates. I digress.
Back on track, we may begin with the ‘Shifty Hans Tied’ (hall of shame) interview:- Steam On.
Tiede: “In the case of this accident, a public safety zone protected area would not have played a part in the role of the accident. The aircraft did not enter what we would understand to be a public safety zone area.”
How neat is this? “In the case of this accident” The discussion reduced from an Australia wide serious safety matter for the public to one isolated case, for which, as yet, we have no facts. Carmody pounces on it – “still under investigation” and the whole thing disappears in a puff of smoke. Now the questions are tied to the apron strings of a single accident and the ATSB investigations. Time and impetus lost in the black holes of departmental systematic prevarication, obfuscation and dilution. Made into a non event which cannot be sheeted back to any ineptitude or fault of anyone. RIP; case closed.
Or, if you prefer to back up the smoke with mirrors, a belt and braces approach to killing a subject, you say - “a public safety zone protected area would not have played a part in the role of the accident”. Then mess about with semantics of what, exactly a PSZ is. Now we have word weasel and legal eagle speak in the mix; just to keep the Senators party line as far away from any real exploratory work as possible
The answers are too simple to be spoken out loud: in polite company, but with dispensation from AP, in plain Anglo Saxon “the fucking buildings are too close to the fucking runways – and you let that happen”. There, I feel better now.
Senator XENOPHON: You are there to determine the safety of those that use aircraft, and you do not say CASA has a role to say, 'This ought to be an appropriate buffer zone, or an appropriate public safety zone,' so that if a plane does lose engine power it has the maximum chance of landing safely, rather than having a building in the way?
Mr Tiede: That is correct.
There, in a nutshell, supported by the rest of the CASA script is the problem. Well, that and creatures who lurk in corridors ever ready to abrogate any and all responsibility for the safety of anything, except their own.
MTF? Yes, when I can stomach reading more of this epistle to ducking and weaving. The opening lines, in print, start the game, the video provides the rest. Watch, listen and comprehend to where this unshriven CASA crew are taking their version of ‘safety’. Every man should care. Disgusting.
Toot toot.
Had Glen Sterle (legend) been born a pilot, instead of a ‘Truckie’ I reckon the aviation industry would be better off today. The parallels between the two industries, particularly the ‘non-airline’ side, are remarkable. Sterle gets it – he just needs to join a few more dots and he will see that. Quick Q&A; for a CF, to which industry are the following quotes related?
Senator STERLE: Well, we were talking about chain of responsibility when I was playing in that area too, so it would be at least 20 years now, and that has not gone anywhere. Is there any great news you have for me on chain of responsibility?
Senator STERLE: We have had decades of this sort of research that has been going on. Can you tell me what this new research is going to find in fatigue management that we do not already know? And I am sure that Senator Back could go back to the days when he was an employer and say that we were talking about this sort of stuff.
Senator STERLE: I think this should send an absolute shiver through the industry. We have got 11 or 12 hours on the eastern seaboard—different in Queensland, different in the Northern Territory, different in WA, and yet there is a group of experts, and part of that group of experts is, you said, industry stakeholders or industry organisations?
I have often wondered, since the Pel-Air inquiry, why the Senate recommendations had little to no effect. The recommendations were ‘deep and meaningful’. It’s only when you take the time to consider departments, other than aviation, that you see a pattern emerging. The infamous “it is one opinion” restated, in various forms, over and over again gives you the clues needed. The Senators who actually care about (rather than score political points off) a subject are every bit as frustrated as we, ‘the people’ are. What a game is Estimates. I digress.
Back on track, we may begin with the ‘Shifty Hans Tied’ (hall of shame) interview:- Steam On.
Tiede: “In the case of this accident, a public safety zone protected area would not have played a part in the role of the accident. The aircraft did not enter what we would understand to be a public safety zone area.”
How neat is this? “In the case of this accident” The discussion reduced from an Australia wide serious safety matter for the public to one isolated case, for which, as yet, we have no facts. Carmody pounces on it – “still under investigation” and the whole thing disappears in a puff of smoke. Now the questions are tied to the apron strings of a single accident and the ATSB investigations. Time and impetus lost in the black holes of departmental systematic prevarication, obfuscation and dilution. Made into a non event which cannot be sheeted back to any ineptitude or fault of anyone. RIP; case closed.
Or, if you prefer to back up the smoke with mirrors, a belt and braces approach to killing a subject, you say - “a public safety zone protected area would not have played a part in the role of the accident”. Then mess about with semantics of what, exactly a PSZ is. Now we have word weasel and legal eagle speak in the mix; just to keep the Senators party line as far away from any real exploratory work as possible
The answers are too simple to be spoken out loud: in polite company, but with dispensation from AP, in plain Anglo Saxon “the fucking buildings are too close to the fucking runways – and you let that happen”. There, I feel better now.
Senator XENOPHON: You are there to determine the safety of those that use aircraft, and you do not say CASA has a role to say, 'This ought to be an appropriate buffer zone, or an appropriate public safety zone,' so that if a plane does lose engine power it has the maximum chance of landing safely, rather than having a building in the way?
Mr Tiede: That is correct.
There, in a nutshell, supported by the rest of the CASA script is the problem. Well, that and creatures who lurk in corridors ever ready to abrogate any and all responsibility for the safety of anything, except their own.
MTF? Yes, when I can stomach reading more of this epistle to ducking and weaving. The opening lines, in print, start the game, the video provides the rest. Watch, listen and comprehend to where this unshriven CASA crew are taking their version of ‘safety’. Every man should care. Disgusting.
Toot toot.