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Romeo 37: Comardy drops the axe on the Hoodoo - 

A late entry to the Reverend Forsyth's thread could be an indicator that the bell has finally tolled for Dr Hoodoo Voodoo....

Background from the embuggerance thread:

BRB assessment of R37 & the E&CC -

Ferryman quote: "..You can make a complaint – sure you can; you may be able to emphatically prove, beyond all reasonable doubt that embuggerance occurred; you may even be able to prove that CASA officers acted incorrectly or worse.  The ICC may even confirm that complaint.  So what.  Once all the rigmarole of ICC and meetings and grudging retraction is done, your complaint may – just may find it’s way into the rarefied, complex, convoluted atmosphere of the ‘Board’ and on to the Ethics committee.  That’s it; no more will be heard and worse, nothing further will happen to whoever ‘wronged’ you. In fact you may, if you pay attention and watch very closely see that ‘advancement’ often follows.  I could cite three, very serious, vicious individual cases, which are particularly relevant, and another dozen serious cases, if permission was granted. Should there ever be an inquiry with full protection, these cases will be first and foremost..."

I've still got the minutes scrawled over the back of a beer coaster somewhere?? But I seem to recall we had a hefty session at the last BRB darts comp - against that top crew from AMSA - on the subject of the ICC and the possible positive effects of the Rev Forsyth's R37 if properly implemented. But then someone drew attention to para 3.2 from the Board's latest missive on the governance procedures for the ICC :

Para 3.2 of the Board GA for ICC:

3.2 Reports to the Ethics and Conduct Committee

The ICC will prepare a report for each meeting of the E&CC in such form and addressing such matters as are specified from time to time by the Chair of the E&CC.

After that it was unanimously agreed that until such time as Jeff Boyd & the Board give Dr Aleck his marching orders and simply disband the E&CC, then any effective implementation of R37 will be null & void and Mr Boyd is not serious in rooting out the evil influence of the CASA Iron Ring...  

P2 question: Why is it not possible for the board itself to act in oversight of the internal ethics and conduct of CASA's employees?

So why did the BRB come to this unanimous decision? 

I will attempt to flesh out some of the BRB examples mentioned where Dr Aleck as the Chair of the E&CC either simply ignored; or firmly embraced ongoing embuggerances . He also agreed and/or set policy as ADAS which would allow black letter law for corrupt CASA officers to carry out duplicitous embuggerances unencumbered by CASA enforcement policies and protocols.

The following reference is from the current version of the CASA Enforcement manual (version 4.4 last revision 17/02/16), which ironically is still counter-signed by the former DAS McCormick and not at all by Skidmore:

Departure from Authorised Policy

Adherence to CASA’s authorised policies will almost always produce an appropriate decision. As said, however, from time to time there will be circumstances in which the strict application of policy may not result in the “preferable” decision. In these cases it may be appropriate (and possibly necessary) to depart from otherwise applicable policy.
Any departure from policy must be justified in order to ensure that it:

• Is genuinely necessary in the interests of fairness
• Does not inappropriately compromise the need for consistent decision- making; and, of course
• Is not in conflict with the interests of safety.

Without fettering a decision-maker’s discretion, it is therefore expected that appropriate consultation will occur before a decision is made that is not the product of the policies and processes set out in this manual. The prescribed consultation process is described below...

It is interesting to note that Dr Aleck is supposed to have been the main architect and original draftee of the EM. Therefore the above 'black letter' dispensation would have at least been agreed to in principle by the former ADAS. Which brings up another conflict of interest, because since that version of the EM was released Dr A has been demoted as ADAS and is now the head of the Legal Services Division. Yet apparently he still remains as the Chair of the E&CC...

Next example comes from the well documented and ongoing embuggerance of Dominic James, which was instigated by the former Sydney/Bankstown Regional Manager Wodger Chambers, while being ably aided & abetted by McComic.







So was Dr Aleck advising Greg Hood in his capacity as the ADAS or in his capacity as the Chair of the Ethics & Conduct Committee?

And if you think the conflict of interest in CASA embuggerances were maybe a thing of the past for Dr Aleck, well think again and refer to my post#56 (above) on the ongoing embuggerance of Jabiru...

or the longer version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPyTIbuvLI8

 ...AK could also have got a sniff of the evil incarnate that emanates from the last of the original GWM & Iron Ring one Jonathon Aleck.    

Gobbles: "..Aagh yes, good ol Dr Voodoo. Once again, and as he has done for several decades, he uses an opportunity to remind the aviation industry that he and his conga line think all of industry are 'dirty'.

What a f#cking parasite..."

Like GD I too believe that Dr Hoodoo is the root of all evil in Aviation House and until such time as this parasite is marched out of the building, there will never be any real cultural change at CASA -  

'Ongoing' because if Dr Aleck is left to wander the halls of Aviation House, he will retaliate for being humiliated at Senate Estimates, mark my words...   


TBC...P2  

Ah yes; I remember it well.

I can never read the first paragraph of the McComic mission statement without going back to the darkest of times when anything and everything was countenanced; provided the preordained result was achieved.  

Adherence to CASA’s authorised policies will almost always produce an appropriate decision. As said, however, from time to time there will be circumstances in which the strict application of policy may not result in the “preferable” decision. In these cases it may be appropriate (and possibly necessary) to depart from otherwise applicable policy.

And wasn’t that taken literally; open season on industry and a chapter of shame in the long, bloody history of our ‘regulator’. The simple fact that whatsisname – Skidmoron – failed to sign it; the shrine to McComic preserved in it’s original vile state and still active. What chance does the good Rev. Forsyth’s R 37 stand against such engineered intent to never, ever change anything CASA does. They are addicted to the untrammelled power built into every comma, full stop and wriggle room paragraph, used to justify the truly disgraceful behaviour of some of their crew.

The entire aviation world, let alone Australia should be demanding the immediate breakup of the E&EC; simply for the sake of clarity. The ICC and the Board should hold the power to decide whether the actions of CASA personnel have been righteous. Those decisions need to made available to interested parties, not buried in some secret archive kept deeply hidden within the bowels of the organisation.  Those decisions made by the clandestine E&EC could serve all manner of questionable practice and due to the secretive nature of process, the odd whiff of rank corruption could be suspected.

The McComic statement, tacitly supported by Skidmoron stands as testament to the absolute determination of the ‘iron wrong’ to persist in their quest for unlimited power, under black letter law, with strict liability and the power of ruling ‘at their discretion’, to their satisfaction.  That, and the ability to protect and succour the hand picked willing accomplices who support the tenet and perform the allotted tasks needs immediate eradication, with malice aforethought.  

Aye, embuggerance, without hindrance is a fine thing for those dishing it out. A ‘selfie’ of DDDD Chester tearing up the McComic version of ‘enforcement’ would go a long, long way toward resolving the problems of the industry he feels he is not responsible for.

Toot – rant over – toot. Feel much better now.

This was the reported progress on R37 from the 25 August 2016 M&M ASRR implementation report:
 


As can be seen M&M, his minions and the Board believe the implementation of R37 has been completed. However today in the Oz it is being reported that Comardy has taken R37 a step further by disbanding the witchdoctor's E&CC...

CASA cans internal ethics unit

12:00amMITCHELL BINGEMANN

The aviation regulator has quietly disbanded its internal ethics and conduct committee.

The aviation regulator has quietly disbanded its internal ethics and conduct committee established to investigate complaints, incidents of fraud and illegal activity within the organisation.

The Australian has learnt that the so-called Ethics and Conduct committee was shut down in late September just three weeks after Civil Aviation and Safety Authorities acting chief Shane Carmody took charge of the organisation.

No replacement committee has been established in its absence but it is understood that complaints about CASA, its performance and the industry are now being funnelled through Industry Complaints Commissioner (ICC) Jonathan Hanton, who reports ­directly to the regulator’s board.

“CASA’s Ethics and Conduct Committee has been discontinued due to the restructuring of CASA during 2016. A number of positions on the committee no longer exist,” a CASA spokesman said.

“The acting director of aviation safety and CEO is currently reviewing governance arrangements across CASA and this includes integrity management.”

CASA said it had a range of ­“robust internal and external processes”, including the Industry Complaints Commissioner, to review matters relating to integrity.

“CASA also has robust internal audit procedures with a Board Audit Committee overseeing this work,” the spokesman said.

The abolishment of the committee falls in line with recommendations by the Aviation Safety Regulation Review chaired by industry veteran David Forsyth. That wideranging review recommended that the ICC handle complaints about CASA and its processes and report directly to the regulator’s board with its concerns and investigations.

Industry groups including Aviation Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Business Association and the Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association of Australia welcomed the move.

“We see this as a positive sign and if we assume the move to close the ethics committee and empower the ICC have been done in accordance with the Forsyth review it will have long-term ben­efits for the industry,” AOPA executive director Ben Morgan said. “It’s encouraging to see some progression on recommendations of the Forsyth review but we encourage CASA to move through the rest of the recommendations as fast as possible.”

The Ethics and Conduct Committee was established in 2010 to ensure allegations and complaints made against CASA employees, delegates and contractors were fairly and effectively addressed.

The committee was also charged with investigating serious complaints involving possible contraventions of CASA policies as well as monitoring the management of reported breaches of CASA’s Code of Conduct, its conflict of interest policy and fraud policies.

The committee was made up of six permanent members including the Associate Director of Aviation Safety; the Deputy Director of Aviation Safety; the Governance Systems Branch chief; the head of CASA’s HR department; General Counsel; and the Industry Complaints Commissioner.

In its first year of operation, in 2010, the committee received 94 complaints about CASA actions, decisions and service; and 295 complaints about the aviation industry. In recent years many of those complaints have been shifted to the Industry Complaints Commissioner for handling.

But more serious breaches of CASA’s internal conduct and fraud policies remained with the Ethics and Conduct committee.

According to CASA’s 2015-16 annual report, the committee conducted eight investigations of potential breaches of its code of conduct. Nine employees were investigated with one of those investigations still ongoing.

Of the eight completed investigations, three found minor breaches of at least one element of CASA’s code of conduct. In all three incidents the employees received formal warnings. Recommendations were also made to their managers to help them improve workplace behaviour

 
Could this be an early Xmas present (Olive branch) to industry by 4D and M&M? It would certainly set the tone for a good start to 2017 but personally it won't be regarded as a sincere gesture until Dr A permanently leaves Fort Fumble...  

MTF...P2