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Final Act of Bastardry & Betrayal. 

From Arthur's most disturbing post -  apape -  CVDPA Announcement - we can conclude that there is no redemption for Skidmore...

As a result of these encounters with both directors, the CVDPA is left in no doubt that CASA’s act of total bastardry in June 2014 in its assault on CVD pilots will not be reversed in any way by the new director...

...The CVDPA has therefore, sadly, come to the conclusion that CASA’s claims of being a “risk based and evidence driven” regulator are mere rhetoric, and we are left with no practical alternative but to litigate in the Federal Court against the lawfulness of the CAD test. The CAD test lies at the heart of the above-said act of bastardry, and demonstrates the blind regulatory prejudice that colour vision defective pilots continue to suffer. Steps are being now taken to set the process in motion.

On that assessment from Arthur & the CVDPA brings the only conclusion that can be made and that is Skidmore simply has to go. From Ferryman's post - The balls of Boyd:

..Since then, in all matters aeronautical we have seen the duplicitous Skidmore nature emerge.  It is only now that the six month trail period is over, that the true Skidmore face is being seen.  This response to CVD, the overt support for Part 61, for the CASA ‘troops’ and the McComic method will, I fear typify the Skidmore regime.  We can dispense with ignorance as a defence; we must now look to malice aforethought.  

This man not going to assist reformation, he has embraced all that is unholy and rotten within Sleepy Hollow.  Time is up, he must resign.  The board can and should terminate his contract, now, before Forsyth and Senate recommendations, along with industry hopes for reasoned changes, disappear for ever.    CASA and Skidmore have declared war rather than a negotiated truce, it's high time the time for the indecisive, silent majority to spoke out, loud and clear... 

 
Now if you want further proof that Skidmark has hitched his wagon to the Iron Ring trough, while drawing a line in the sand to which he dares any potential dissident industry stakeholders to try & cross unscathed, here it is; i.e. the PR media campaign has begun..
(bucket please Aunty Pru.. )

On the surprisingly low key affair.. .. of the CASA & ASA 20th birthday - CASA marks 20 years as regulator

 
Then from the Oz Aviation yesterday:

CASA boss seeks to get the balance right

July 6, 2015 by australianaviation.com.au

CASA’s Mark Skidmore

CASA director of aviation safety Mark Skidmore says the regulator faces the constant challenge of striking the right balance between maintaining appropriate safety standards without placing too much of a burden on operators.

“Looking back we can see times when the pendulum has swung both ways, possibly too much at times,” Skidmore told Flight Safety Australia on the 20th anniversary of CASA’s formation on July 6.

“I see my role as making sure the CASA of today and into the future gets the balance right. An aviation safety regulator cannot take a ‘light’ approach to safety, nor can we overburden the aviation community with regulation that has unintended consequences or fails to deliver the right outcomes,” the CASA DAS said.

“CASA may never be perfect but we will keep working to deliver safe skies for all.”
Both the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and Airservices Australia were created on July 6 1995 with the splitting up of the then Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) responsibilities, leaving CASA as the nation’s air safety regulator and Airservices to manage air traffic control for Australia’s civil airspace.

Two decades on from its creation, Airservices is now responsible for four million flights a year carrying about 90 million passengers.

    
Next from Oz Flying (also yesterday):
 

Rex SAAB 340 at Sydney. (Norbert Genci/Regional Express)


CASA Directive "A Breath of Fresh Air": Rex

06 Jul 2015

Regional airline Rex has issued a press release praising CASA for its directive relating to the development of risk-based and cost-effective safety regulations.

In the directive, Director of Aviation Safety Mark Skidmore stated CASA’s commitment to ensure that regulatory changes are "justified on the basis of safety risk and do not impose unnecessary costs or unnecessarily hinder participation in aviation and its capacity for growth."

“The Directive issued under the new CASA Chair Jeff Boyd and CEO Mark Skidmore is a breath of fresh air," said Rex Chief Operating Officer Neville Howell, "and provides reason to believe that the aviation industry can now start to recover from the severe damage inflicted over the last six years by the previous CASA administration which was the focus of the Government’s Aviation Safety Regulation Review.”

“This new direction and regime is strongly supported by Rex as, among other things, it makes it clear that aviation safety regulations must ‘be shown to be necessary’ and ‘address known or likely safety risks’ and that ‘every proposed regulation must be assessed against the contribution it will make to aviation safety."

Howell concluded by saying that Rex looked forward to working with CASA to achieve a safer aviation environment through regulatory reforms that are "grounded on rational and evidence-based policies.”

Call me cynical but I question the timing of the above article hot on the heels of Skid-Mark's
recent trip to NZed & that meeting with CVDPA/CVD(NZ) associations...

For mine the following quote from Ferryman post - Chips and the spitting thereof. - completely sums up my feelings on this disappointing development:  

"..I don’t know where Arthur finds the control to write in such a sanguine manner; I can’t: not for the moment, fury rules.  But he is bang on the money.  The betrayal of hope, the insanity of dismissing the Forsyth “view”; the total contempt for the Senate recommendations; the useless, gutless Minister, the smug complicity of the DoIT and the two faced nature of the betrayal have created a need for a short thinking period.  One in which I can deal with the disgust, disappointment and sense betrayal.  The dislike of bullies, hatred of liars, utter contempt for those who willingly support them and disgust for those who have two faces have long been trusted companions.  Skidmore now becomes hard to classify; but, no doubt I shall complete the assessment in due course..."

Let the ESM - 'Erasing the Skid-Mark' - campaign begin..

MTF...P2