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Continuing back on topic here is Sandy's excellent reply via email...

You quote Jeff Boyd, Chairman of CASA thus:-

"We are working our way through. The ASRR report is my road map of how we are going to make CASA a better organisation "...

Problem is that the first and urgent requirement is for specific reforms and new and workable regulation. How CASA attempts to shuffle its internal deck chairs is not of prime interest.

The Boyd quote originally came from this Oz Aviation online article - CASA chairman proposes new funding model

That article also led to P9 writing this - Boyd the believable.:

"..We are a long way from Nirvana, but Boyd at least is believable, no rhetoric, no spin no ducking tiger teams; just plain, old fashioned common sense and truth. Most refreshing. Thank you Jeff and the board for providing some of the best news these tired ears have heard in a long while. Hell it’s even believable. Bravo that man, well done.."

A bit slow to catch on but recently on the UP the AA Boyd article was rehashed:

AOTW - A sign of change perhaps:

Chair of CASA’s Board speaks out on unintended problems. Australian Aviation Magazine, January/February 2016 Edition, Prefight Comment feature. In part, article stated: Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) Chairman, Jeff Boyd, recently stated the implementation of CASA Part 61 licensing regulations had been “a debacle”. Boyd was named chairman in July 2015 after joining the board a year earlier. The report stated the nation’s aviation safety regulator has formed a full-time task force and an industry advisory panel in an effort to resolve issues raised by Part 61, which covers pilot ratings, licenses and endorsements, as well as a number of other licensing regulations.

Boyd said the Part 61 regulations were written up without adequate communication with industry and he had lobbied against their introduction before he joined the CASA Board. “We knew Part 61 was never going to work. It got put in a drawer for 12 months and instead of being reworked and rejigged unfortunately the very last day that our previous CEO was in the organisation he promulgated Part 61 as it was 12 months previously,” Boyd said. The results have been horrendous for the organisation and for industry. It’s a debacle.

Lead Balloon - At last: Some honesty. In plain English. Well done Mr Boyd.

I look forward to the next opportunity he has to speak candidly. At the point he states that the entire regulatory reform program is an abject failure and CASA has no hope of fixing the mess, I will hold a glimmer of hope of some restoration of trust in the regulator.

Sunfish - Agreed Leady. We can but hope.

  
All good stuff but on a second read of the Boyd quotes it was this that got me thinking.. :

“..We knew Part 61 was never going to work. It got put in a drawer for 12 months and instead of being reworked and rejigged unfortunately the very last day that our previous CEO was in the organisation he promulgated Part 61 as it was 12 months previously..”

  
Hmm...has Boyd & the Board created an excusable scapegoat for the Part 61 debacle?? Time will tell I guess but it would effectively give Skidmore some wriggle room to crawl out from underneath the still growing Part 61 behemoth, that is slowly but surely strangling the industry...


MTF..P2