[thorn bird]

It really is tiresome and somewhat depressing reading M&M scripted drivel like this.
The same old, same old stuff.
A bit of a trawl back over the past twenty years of "Statements"  reveals the same old platitudes,
same old mother goose statements, all very nice and touchy feely for the regulators troops but
nothing of substance for whats left of a bleeding demoralised industry, just a sure
knowledge that more of the same is coming their way, nothing will change.


"Mr Chester said CASA's latest corporate plan continues CASA's focus on safety as its highest priority and sets out how the nation's aviation safety regulator will be pragmatic, practical and proportional in its responsibilities."

Past performance, the list of embuggerances and double standards gives the lie to this statement.
"Safety as the highest priority"...... Its NOT about safety its about self service and aggrandisement.

"Practical"?...is there anyone in the industry who believes Part61 is in the slightest "Practical"?

“In addition to its regulatory approach the plan identifies a number of key aviation activities and highlights strong stakeholder engagement as a priority."

We are rapidly approaching a point where it will be very hard to identify any aviation activities other than RPT, the government subsidised corporations disguised as charities and the military.

“The 2017–18 CASA corporate plan is a strong blueprint for the future of aviation safety regulation in Australia to help maintain our record of having one of the safest skies in the world,” Mr Chester said."

Perhaps if this statement read as:

“The 2017–18 CASA corporate plan is a strong blueprint for the future of aviation safety regulation in Australia to help maintain our record of having one of the most expensive skies in the world,” Mr Chester said."

It would be closer to the truth, Safest we are most certainly not.

“In 2017–18 CASA will develop a customer service charter that will shape the way it delivers client services.

In this "Modern" era CAsA virtually runs the smaller operations. From the CEO down they decide who oversees corporate governance within a company, even to the point where CAsA FOI's dictate who may be employed and who may not.They decide how operations are to be conducted, according to their own opinions, in some cases contrary to manufacturers recommendations, they decide how they are to be maintained, sometimes contrary to manufacturers  recommendations. This ghost management of aviation companies is by and large dictated by a "Public Service" mentality, where cost and practicality form no part of the matrix. A great example of the mindset can be seen in a waffle piece on the CAsA web sight to promote safety management systems. There was an imaginary business operating a couple of Navajo's and a Metro. This imaginary company required no less than twenty admin staff.
If CAsA staff are ghost running GA companies is it any wonder so many are going to the wall.

“The overarching objective will be to create an efficient, simple and accessible experience for the people and organisations in aviation that conduct regulatory business with CASA,” Mr Chester said.

The question is, why bother? there will soon be nobody left to conduct regulatory business with.

I would have thought a better statement would have been;

"Due to the continuing decline of aviation activity, CAsA see's no imperative to invest in any further costly aviation "reform".
The current rule set has been very effective in containing aviation accidents, therefore CAsA's focus is to embark on a rationalisation of staff numbers to reflect the current environment with a view to implementing efficiencies by way of redundancies across its workforce."

Unfortunately the unintended consequence of this would be a sharp decline in the academic world as it appears a good many CAsA staff spend the majority of their working time studying for their masters degrees or PHD's.