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Hitch playing devil's advocate

Disappointing to hear further confirmation that DAS Skidmore is just another bench-warming, do little, NFI,  AVM (ret) numpty who is merely providing top-cover for the Iron Ring and RAeS favoured trough-swillers.

Keeping on theme from the "K" informative post and in line with the following quoted threads...     

From the Reverend's keyboard -

ASA the Empire of the RAeS cash cow - Happy trough-feeding for all

Jamie scooped this good news story, via SMH/AFR: 

Airservices to undertake 'unprecedented' freeze of charges to airlines


Date March 15, 2016

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Jamie Freed
Senior Reporter


Airservices Australia costs had been increasing faster than revenue. Photo: James Davies

Funny how News Corp weren't privy to this significant industry story -

Doesn't even rate a mention in today's 'that Man' article via the Oz

Concerns raised about Airservices Australia and OneSKY expenses

• Ean Higgins
  
• The Australian
  
• March 18, 2016 12:00AM
  

 On the now 2nd VH-NGA OVERDUE  Final..Final report, perhaps we could start an official O&O thread that captures all ASA, ATSB & CASA projects, investigations, response to recommendations etc that are overdue and evidently being obfuscated?   

Here is a perfect example from a true industry luminary on the progress of the ASRR : 

Regarding how many of the ASRR recommendations have been implemented, I can advise my score card is as follows.

Assessing the information tabled by Minister Truss in parliament in February, showing implementation status as at 31 December 2015, I assessed the following status.

CASA 29% implemented, 15% partially implemented and 56% not done.

DEPT 20% implemented, 60% partially implemented and 20% not done.

ATSB 33% implemented, 33% partially implemented and 33% not done.

This is being is benevolent as possible.  Other may have a harder view.  A number of those regarded as implemented will require ongoing monitoring to ensure change remains in place and/or that the culture has changed.

No matter how you view it, the implementation rate at CASA is poor, and indicates a lack of enthusiasm for change.   As advised to their Board in February 2015, many of the recommendations (more than 10)  are simple and low hanging fruit which could have been implemented within months.   Here we are 22 months after the report was presented to the Minister and 16 months after the Minister accepted most of the recommendations, with more than half the CASA recommendations not acquitted. 

Follow up to quote (above) -  

via Oz Flying:

David Forsyth, Chairman of the Aviation Safety Regulation Review (ASRR) board.



Forsyth scores ASRR Reform Progress
18 Mar 2016

CAsA spinning the numbers.......again


KC of the Sunshine Band fraternity said;

"Mr Cannane said that while official figures from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority showed the number of aircraft maintenance engineers on the rise, he said that was only Mr Cannane said that while official figures from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority showed the number of aircraft maintenance engineers on the rise, he said that was only because the organisation had introduced a perpetual licence scheme in 2007.

“This gives the impression that the number of engineers is always growing but because the licences are perpetual we have no idea how many have left and how many are actually still working in the industry,” he said."

Go Ken!!!! 
You know what I like about Ken? The wily old bugger has been around for an eternity and he can see through a bullshit, fudged Government smokescreen before it has even be thought up! Those numbers quoted are bullshit. "Perpetual figures"! Fu#k me sideways, what a beauty? Murky and his minions have done a nice job using that 'hard to quantify formula' for providing accurate figures. Bollocks! 

CAsA you are a bunch of shysters.

...here is the Hitch OP off his weekly wrap..

The Last Minute Hitch: 18 March 2016

Change almost always bring with it winds of optimism, and the zephyrs in the aviation industry at the are all about a new minister in Canberra. Any change is generally seen as good change, and growing frustration over a perceived lack of progress with the ASRR reforms is gaining momentum; analyst and rantist alike are preparing to hit Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester with gale-force lobbying to adopt their view of the way forward. Many of those will no doubt arm themselves with David Forsyth's reform scorecard that shows there is still a lot of work to be done. That's one way of reading it. Another way is to compare the reform progress made in the last 22 months against the progress made in the last 22 years. By that measure, we're not doing so bad. Mr Chester is about to be bounced around by opinions coming from the industry, CASA, his own department, ATSB, experts, wannabe experts and, yes, aviation journalists. He's going to be faced with choices, and I fully expect he will do nothing. There's a Double-D election in the wind also.

As AMROBA boss Ken Cannane points out, Australia's safety regulation mess is probably historical. With successive regulators failing to simply adopt international standards (which sort of defeats the reason for having international standards) we find ourselves choked with regulations that were unworkable from the very beginning. The aviation community is no longer accepting the old excuse about "Australian conditions"; a catch-all phrase that has come to be understood as a defence mechanism for CASA. OK, there may be some "Australian conditions", but are they really the imperative given the cost and energy required to regulate especially for them? That cost and energy would be better put into trying to revitalise GA; but that's not CASA's brief, is it?...

MTF..P2