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No shit Sherlock! - Off Dougy's weekly wrap (Warning: Vomit bag maybe required ):

Insights 12 November 2015

12 Nov 2015
Doug Nancarrow

There continues to be a stream of the right noises coming out of Canberra, though much of industry remains concerned that action is not following.

Of particular note this week is the message that acting Airservices CEO Jason Harfield is sharing with the organisation’s staff. In it he talks of the need to transform the ANSP and ‘do things differently to the way we are currently working’. He has also announced a ‘Business Diagnostic and Efficiency Review’ of the organisation, which starts immediately. ‘The operating environment has changed,’ he says, ‘the economic realities have changed; our industry has changed; technology has changed. And now we must change.’ 

Airservices has its annual get together with customers and other stakeholders, Waypoint, coming up on 3 December, in Canberra.
 
Meanwhile CASA has announced a special task force ‘to address outstanding issues with the new licensing suite of regulations’, working with an advisory panel which includes TAAAF, the RAAA, the AHIA, AOPA, the ABAA, the RFACA and the Aerial Application Association of Australia. Representatives will also be included from the regular public transport and mustering sectors, along with key people from flying training schools and the tertiary education sector.

‘CASA has already addressed many concerns that have been identified in the new licensing regulations but I understand more needs to be done,’ Mark Skidmore said. ‘This is a priority and that’s why I need a dedicated team of people within CASA working full-time on the issues. I require real solutions to the issues with the licensing suite as quickly as they can be delivered.’
 
But in the same week, the AHIA called for less talk and more action. The AHIA noted that the Director of Aviation Safety has continued his commitment to listen to the industry by travelling around the countryside meeting with a broader section of the aviation community, but warns that ‘there is a point where consultation fatigue will take over’. The AHIA has would suggested that the answers to the industry’s problems ‘may not be in the small number of individuals who turn up to offer their individual perspective, but more likely along the lines that associations like the AHIA and other peak industry bodies have previously provided to the DAS… We would be encouraged by a change in direction to see the DAS and CASA’s managers focusing on solutions and deal with what has already been raised rather than trying to flush out another range of issues.’ 
 
People I spoke to during the week were also of a mind that the action part of the equation is, or at least has been, missing. It’s heartening to hear the commitment to action in those words above but I fear industry is genuinely frustrated and no longer optimistic about outcomes... No shit Sherlock..

MTF...P2