06-06-2015, 03:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-07-2015, 11:37 AM by thorn bird.)
Well captain, you cant say I didn't warn you!!
ECT(electro convulsive therapy) is recommended after a Part 61 brain scramble.
Opens all the files in the brain apparently,then throws everything in the air where it must be meticulously gathered up and re-filed.
I'm told it un-jams the neurons thus permitting rational thought processes to be reestablished.
Very little in the way of side effects from the process.
Took a while to accept that this strange woman in the house was my wife, and an irrational focus on trying to identify the bloody sadist who dreamed up Part 61 and what I'd like to do the Bastard, Oh and you tend to drool in your beer for a while.
Of course the serious aspect to all this is just what its going to cost the industry?
Is there any hope that GA can survive it all?
The adversities facing the industry would seem insurmountable when you think about the massive chunks of money being ripped from it by all the various major and minor parasites that have grown up to feed off it, and some of the ill considered actions of our government and their failure to envisage the consequences.
Disaster number one. privatization of our airports.
Flogging public infrastructure to big banks and property sharks was always going to end in tears.
Neither party got involved with any interest in aviation.
So today our primary airports have become the biggest tax dodge in history.
Our gateways embarrassingly voted some of the worst in the world and our secondary's slowly being chewed to death in the interest of lining property sharks pockets.
Shopping centres and industrial parks are more profitable than promoting the industry the airports allegedly exist for and hey with the minister asleep at the wheel they can be built without interference from pesky environmentalists, building codes and planning officials.
Exorbitant rents, unrealistic lease terms all contribute to the GA industries demise, added to which the unofficial "Excise" on fuel imposed by some airport owners, where they demand a cut for every litre of fuel sold at their airports further drives up the cost to industry. The cost of fuel at one capital city secondary airport is almost the same as an airport in the middle of the outback.
Fuel should be a major consideration as its the lifeblood of the industry, by the end of the year the temporary levee to provide CAsA with an extra $90 mil will have raked in over $400 mil, Jeez that maybe could have funded ADSB in every aircraft in Australia, which is what they want. They just dint want to pay for it, no worries get the industry to pay.
No idea why, the yanks seem to get buy without it just fine, but then what would they know?
I heard a rumour that they are pushing ADSB requirements out to 2025, allegedly because there's new technology coming along that will make ADSB redundant.
At the end of the day all ADSB has done and will do is rip another few hundred million out of the industry, for no apparent benefit.
Disaster number two our world class regulator.
Its failure to consider "Affordable Safety" or what constitutes "Competent" management.
We hear from them that its not their fault, they just do the governments bidding.
But hang on!! they are supposed to be the "experts"
What we never hear from them is any consideration given for the regulatory mess we are in.
Did they do a study and make any recommendations to the government?
How did we end up with the "Act"?
Did anyone in CAsA give consideration to the likely outcomes if it was written the way it was?
Was consideration given to the result of moving our regulations into the criminal code? which resulted in our regulations being written in legalize instead of plane language and ultimately will make criminals out of every pilot in Australia.
Was consideration given to the likely consequence of stepping away from FAA rules, where almost all our aircraft come from and who have produced a rule set that results in the safest aviation environment in the world?
What cost our unique maintenance reg's?
What cost our unique Part 61 Reg's?
What cost our unique Part 41, 42?
I don't see any evidence anywhere of any serious study by CAsA of the "economics" of the industry.
But they continually meddle, where they are not entitled, into commercial decisions of aviation companies.
To do aviation business in Australia there must be a reserved seat on the board for CAsA and they have veto rights.
Disaster number four Apathy.
That is not just a failure of the government but also a failure of the industry.
Forgivable perhaps from the industries point of view, when your clinging on by your finger nails in survival mode continuously it aint easy to focus on the big picture.
Unforgivable from the governments point of view, they are elected to represent the interests of ALL Australians. To have sat idly by and ignored what has happened is unforgivable and very short sighted.
Look across the Tasman to see what aviation in Australia could have become.
ECT(electro convulsive therapy) is recommended after a Part 61 brain scramble.
Opens all the files in the brain apparently,then throws everything in the air where it must be meticulously gathered up and re-filed.
I'm told it un-jams the neurons thus permitting rational thought processes to be reestablished.
Very little in the way of side effects from the process.
Took a while to accept that this strange woman in the house was my wife, and an irrational focus on trying to identify the bloody sadist who dreamed up Part 61 and what I'd like to do the Bastard, Oh and you tend to drool in your beer for a while.
Of course the serious aspect to all this is just what its going to cost the industry?
Is there any hope that GA can survive it all?
The adversities facing the industry would seem insurmountable when you think about the massive chunks of money being ripped from it by all the various major and minor parasites that have grown up to feed off it, and some of the ill considered actions of our government and their failure to envisage the consequences.
Disaster number one. privatization of our airports.
Flogging public infrastructure to big banks and property sharks was always going to end in tears.
Neither party got involved with any interest in aviation.
So today our primary airports have become the biggest tax dodge in history.
Our gateways embarrassingly voted some of the worst in the world and our secondary's slowly being chewed to death in the interest of lining property sharks pockets.
Shopping centres and industrial parks are more profitable than promoting the industry the airports allegedly exist for and hey with the minister asleep at the wheel they can be built without interference from pesky environmentalists, building codes and planning officials.
Exorbitant rents, unrealistic lease terms all contribute to the GA industries demise, added to which the unofficial "Excise" on fuel imposed by some airport owners, where they demand a cut for every litre of fuel sold at their airports further drives up the cost to industry. The cost of fuel at one capital city secondary airport is almost the same as an airport in the middle of the outback.
Fuel should be a major consideration as its the lifeblood of the industry, by the end of the year the temporary levee to provide CAsA with an extra $90 mil will have raked in over $400 mil, Jeez that maybe could have funded ADSB in every aircraft in Australia, which is what they want. They just dint want to pay for it, no worries get the industry to pay.
No idea why, the yanks seem to get buy without it just fine, but then what would they know?
I heard a rumour that they are pushing ADSB requirements out to 2025, allegedly because there's new technology coming along that will make ADSB redundant.
At the end of the day all ADSB has done and will do is rip another few hundred million out of the industry, for no apparent benefit.
Disaster number two our world class regulator.
Its failure to consider "Affordable Safety" or what constitutes "Competent" management.
We hear from them that its not their fault, they just do the governments bidding.
But hang on!! they are supposed to be the "experts"
What we never hear from them is any consideration given for the regulatory mess we are in.
Did they do a study and make any recommendations to the government?
How did we end up with the "Act"?
Did anyone in CAsA give consideration to the likely outcomes if it was written the way it was?
Was consideration given to the result of moving our regulations into the criminal code? which resulted in our regulations being written in legalize instead of plane language and ultimately will make criminals out of every pilot in Australia.
Was consideration given to the likely consequence of stepping away from FAA rules, where almost all our aircraft come from and who have produced a rule set that results in the safest aviation environment in the world?
What cost our unique maintenance reg's?
What cost our unique Part 61 Reg's?
What cost our unique Part 41, 42?
I don't see any evidence anywhere of any serious study by CAsA of the "economics" of the industry.
But they continually meddle, where they are not entitled, into commercial decisions of aviation companies.
To do aviation business in Australia there must be a reserved seat on the board for CAsA and they have veto rights.
Disaster number four Apathy.
That is not just a failure of the government but also a failure of the industry.
Forgivable perhaps from the industries point of view, when your clinging on by your finger nails in survival mode continuously it aint easy to focus on the big picture.
Unforgivable from the governments point of view, they are elected to represent the interests of ALL Australians. To have sat idly by and ignored what has happened is unforgivable and very short sighted.
Look across the Tasman to see what aviation in Australia could have become.