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AOPA Oz suggestions for CASA fictional SMS script?? - 

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Civil Aviation Safety Authority - CASA

#ComingSoon: We recently finished filming our new safety management systems (SMS) videos that complement our updated Safety management systems resource kit (3rd edition).

Filmed at Bankstown in NSW these new videos feature a fictitious regional charter and training organisation where the owner makes critical decisions.

Get your updated SMS kit from the CASA website: civilaviation.au/sms-update or a print copy from our online store: civilaviation.au/SMS-online-store

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AOPA Oz in reply...

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Australia
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CASA OUT FILMING:  SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR GENERAL AVIATION BUSINESS - SOME SUGGESTIONS FROM AOPA AUSTRALIA TO HELP KEEP IT REAL!

Fantastic work CASA... but did you also film a fictitious general aviation charter management and ownership team being financially destroyed and the business bankrupted by the excessive cost impost of your Safety Management System (SMS) on small to medium sized GA businesses?

You could even include some video of the excessive stress and workload burdens that your SMS adds to the operation of small businesses and how it undermines Human Factors principles. Or some video that demonstrates how CASA continually change regulations with total disregard as to the impact on the performance of small to medium sized business?

AOPA Australia believes the above would all help to make your training videos genuinely realistic and relatable for general aviation businesses across Australia. Keep up the great work!

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Gary Gould

This over-administration is endemic in Australia. (Just look at how the HR departments have become so powerful). An acquaintance of mine, a GP, gave up his practice in Sydney simply because of the paperwork. He normally worked 5.5 days a week, but spent every second Sunday filling out paperwork. The ATO, Federal Health Depatment, State Health Departments, Insurance Companies, wages paperwork for his three staff. Essentially one day free from work a fortnight. The breaking point came with a routine audit of his surgery, from NSW Health where it was found that his fridge needed replacing, “because it was older than four years”. That was it. He closed his practice. He is nowhere near retirement age. Any wonder we are short of GP’s. The aviation game is very similar. Any wonder we are short of pilots.

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Kevin Warren

More propaganda.

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Peter John-Francis

Wow. Some propaganda with shiny happy people.

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Ralph Holland

Oh dear.

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Wayne Harder

The movie title should be
“Fiddling while Rome burns”

MTF...P2