[Peetwo]

Dear Taaaf,

While your heart and recommendations are in the right place, your requests are mild, to say the least. To ask  for yet another 'task force' to look at amendments and exemptions will have the inhabitants of fortress CASA gleefully preparing more meetings in cooler parts of Australia this summer moving to northern parts for winter seminars. They will book their usual salubrious accommodations;  all the while 'user pays' and the Part 61 steamroller will kill off more hundreds of GA jobs.

The only hope for GA is action. These demands to be met before any cooperation:-

1. Suspend and replace Part 61 with simple rules immediately (you say propose urgent amendments, that will take years).
2. Take immediate steps to repeal criminal sanctions on the majority of the rules, and remove the strict liability provisions.
3. Allow individual instructors to teach, as in USA, without our super expensive AOC system.

It should be made crystal clear that no amount of talking, engaging, being available, or discussions is acceptable before some action.

Action is demanded now and realise that CASA and Mr. Skidmore have given us nothing except more grief and we do not accept platitudes like "that was the previous administrators" or we are working on "cultural change". Working on change? Don't we pay these people to do as asked and what is good for Australia? No more pussy footing.

CAA (before name change) wrote to me in April 1989....."CAA..objectives...more business-like procedures in its regulation of the industry, with a view to reducing requirements, and their associated costs, to a minimum."

That lie is still standing twenty-six years later with no apology forthcoming. There's no "engaging" and no quarter given unless and until CASA accedes to our reasonable demands, and that's just the start.

Second that motion Sandy & I totally agree we should not broker any compromise, not an inch or even a millimetre...

Naughty Gobbles...   One thing I thought when it comes to Herr Russell, is he would certainly know where most of the skeletons & pots of gold are buried in Cant'berra...   
Anyway Gobbles better grab your ankles & that bucket again 'cause here is the latest from GT's mob : Industry expresses concern with slow pace of change at CASA

To quote from the ventus post - "..Fade to black .."

I parked, got out, and stood, and looked around. I saw nothing, and I heard nothing, aviation. No aircraft, no engine sounds, nothing, just the wind.

And then, suddenly, the sound, of …… I presume, a V8 screaming it’s head off, on the dyno.

Not a Gypsy major or minor, or anything that could ever turn a prop. It may sound spooky, but it reminded me of a movie I once saw.  I can not remember the name of it, but it was a war movie. It opened with an old man, standing in a English field, with the remnants of an old control tower to one side, and as the credits rolled up the screen, the camera slowly panned vertically up to the clouds, and as it panned back down slowly, the music and the credits ended, and the scene was now of a vibrant WW2 bomber base – and the movie went on.

At the end, the reverse occurred the credits rolled by, the scence went to the clouds, and then back to the old man in the field.

He then slowly walked away, off camera, stage right, and fadeout to black – “The End” – in white. As I looked around, all I saw, was what is now a toxic aviation wasteland.

Toxic in every way, chemically, commercially, financially, politically, legally, ethically, …….. lots of “lly’s”.

Too many “lly’s”.YSBK is indeed now riddled with those zillion ailments, but unlike years past, they are now real, not imaginary, and, tragically, they are incureable.Just like the ailments once beatable by antibiotics, like rampant staff infections in our hospitals, that now easily defeat the antibiotics, a situation brought about by the inappropriate and gross overuse of same by an all knowing self richeous and unaccountable medical clique, YSBK as the hospital, and GA as the patients, are being decimated by aviation’s plague of inappropriate, illogical, unreasonable, nonsensical regulations, and worse, the gross, purile, and zealously vindictive overuse of same, by another unaccountable “aviation clique” – CASA.The prognosis is grave.

GA is at death’s door.

YSBK will soon be “condemned” as an empty graveyard, ripe for redevelopment.

One must ask.

Was that not the “game plan” from the beginning ?

Schofields, Hoxton, done and dusted.

YSBK soon ? YSCN next ?

Perfect political subterfuge ?
Who remembers ?
Who sees ?
Who knows ?
Who cares ?
Who will write the epitaph?
Will anyone bother ?
Will anyone read it, even if anyone does bother to write it ?


Senator Fawcett, Heff, or Zeno ?

Perhaps, it should really rank a Ministerial ?

The Miniscule could ask Mrdak to get Beaker to draft it for him……. perhaps….. ?



Was it not he, before he entered the ATSB, who gleefully wielded the syringe, by his own hand, that injected the infection – (sic) correction – the toxic immunisation inoculation, that is so successfully, slowly but surely destroying the hospital and turning it into a graveyard ?

Is it not also he, who as head of the ATSB, has been shown to willingly and deceptively assist the prime “aviation clique” in it’s selective and vindictive prosecution and persecution of certain GA targets, by ensuring that his supposedly ICAO compliant “independent” reports have been “spiced” with a certain flavour, most paletable to the “aviation clique” ?

After all, he knows best…… does he not ?
Surely he must ?
He is always telling the good Senators he does, does he not ?
Remember his retort to Heff’s remark about him climbing his own water tower ?

I am not a patch on Yoda. I am more of an elephant type.

But reality is, I am now Just an old man, standing on a rise, looking down on an old control tower.

Fade to black.

The End.

IMO 'fade to black' is exactly what will happen if we allow Skidmore & co to continue with gabfests, taskforces & tiger teams - led by a NFI Muppet called Wodger, who was largely responsible for dreaming up Part61 - FFS!    

More on this, 1st from the regurgitator Creepy: Urgent call for task force on aviation regulations

“TAAAF believes that now is the time for definitive action before the new regulations cause irreparable long-term damage and the loss of jobs and businesses.’’

Mr Russell said the communique underpinned real concern within the industry about the pace of reform within CASA and the consistency of its actions.

He said regulatory changes already made and those coming into effect were creating major costs and seriously disrupting the industry. “And I’m not sure that message is well understood in government,’’ he said. “Yes, it’s been going on for a while but … I’ve never seen such angst.’’

...But he said this was not being matched by the actions of some CASA line staff and the industry believed this pointed to major cultural issues within the organisation.

“We’ll be writing to the board chair and the aim is to work closely with the board and management to address is what we think is this serious and ongoing cultural issue, which is effectively creating this regulatory impasse in terms of the relationship between industry and CASA,’’ he said.

Regional Aviation Association of Australia chief executive Paul Tyrell said opposition to the CAO 48.1 had been a major issue at last week’s RAAA convention.

Next from our resident IOS 'Editor at large' Octogenarian...  - Aviation forum’s manifesto seeks urgent action

..The group’s sentiments are a haunting reminder of the findings and recommendations of the Aviation Safety Regulation Review Panel led by industry veteran David Forsyth, which delivered its damning report in May 2014.

The ASRR warned that:

Although opinions differ, the Panel estimates that the [Regulatory Reform Program] will take at least another five years to complete. Furthermore, the final product of regulatory reform will not meet the aviation community’s needs and will not be consistent with the ICAO [International Civil Aviation Organisation] principles for plain language, easily understood, safety rules. Nor will the final regulations be harmonised with those of any foreign jurisdiction.

The 25-plus year history of regulatory reform has been consuming the industry, and distracting the aviation community from the objective of managing safety in its operations. On this basis, the Panel concludes that continuing along the current path is not in the interests of aviation safety in Australia and that a new approach must be developed for regulatory reform.

The ASRR Panel had also warned that “While trusted by many in government, the industry’s trust in CASA is failing, compromising CASA’s Stewardship, and industry perceives CASA’s Accountability as being compromised.”(The Panel’s highlighting.)

Elsewhere in the report the Panel also observed:

“CASA and industry need to build an effective collaborative relationship on a foundation of mutual trust and respect. Therefore, CASA needs to set a new strategic direction.”

CASA has more recently begun engaging with alarmed industry groups and these contacts appear to have alerted Mr Skidmore and others that the trust issue was becoming more and more central to developing a lasting solution.

 
Soothsayer Sandy? - "..To ask for yet another 'task force' to look at amendments and exemptions will have the inhabitants of fortress CASA gleefully preparing more meetings in cooler parts of Australia this summer moving to northern parts for winter seminars. They will book their usual salubrious accommodations;  all the while 'user pays' and the Part 61 steamroller will kill off more hundreds of GA jobs.."

Finally the Oz Flying article was updated with a response from CASA that IMO already shows the contempt Skidmore's mob have for the AAAF communique:

CASA Responds

CASA later issued the following response to the TAAAF communique.

"As TAAAF members would be aware CASA is currently actively consulting the aviation community on a range of issues including proposed new aerial work regulations, proposed new operating rules, the best ways to implement future regulations and the development of Flight Plan 2030. Extensive consultation with the aviation community on a range of key issues will continue. CASA welcomes feedback from all sectors of the aviation community and will look carefully at all constructive suggestions.

"Earlier this year the Director of Aviation Safety wrote to all pilots asking for feedback on the new licensing suite of regulations, with more than 100 people responding. CASA has been working methodically through the issues raised and has been addressing unintended consequences. Changes have been made to address specific issues such as firefighting operations.

"Because the ATPL flight test is a new requirement, CASA Flight Training Examiners are available to facilitate the conduct of these tests while industry delegates transition to gaining the required privileges and the tests are built in to industry training and checking programs.

"Also, a special CASA forum is being held in November for aviation organisations developing or planning to develop a fatigue risk management system. The aim of the forum is to ensure there is a mutual understanding between CASA and aviation organisations of the requirements and expected outcomes of a fatigue risk management system.

"CASA is committed to listening to the legitimate concerns of the aviation community and we will look carefully at the suggestions being made by the TAAAF."

 
UFB...
 
Nope still underwhelmed, Sandy's motion still gets my nod..


MTF...P2