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Balancing Acts & reform? - Part II

Referring to my post - OST a fellow of the RAeS - Conflict of interest?

Oliver Skidmore Twist said:

“I look forward to being able to support the ideals of the society and further aviation safety in this great nation of ours,”

 
From that we can now safely deduce that the CASA Iron Ring, aided & abetted by the Establishment, have yet again effectively captured their man and after a short hiccup (Forsyth review), it is business as usual & once again the relentless cycle of bogus regulatory reform & industry decimation will continue unabated...

However before what is left of the IOS *1 go out and slit their throats or put a bomb under Aviation House, there is a way that Oliver could truly redeem himself & that is for him to give notice to Boyd & the Board that he is resigning, effective immediately. That or have Boyd ask for his resignation on grounds of breach of contract and the obvious fact that the job is simply beyond him.

Then the Board has to hire a DAS that is prepared to roll up his sleeves, hit the ground running with the first action being a complete purging of all Iron Ring aligned CASA Staff. 

Next order of action from the DAS has to be a demand that the Minister amend, the root of all evil, the currently un-constitutional S9A of the CAA Act.

To help explain why this is essential I refer to the WJR Hamilton 'Response to the ASRR report':

    
{*1 IOS - 'Ills of society' McComic 2012 - "Do not be dismayed by our vocal but largely uninformed minority of critics; they are symptomatic of other ills in society. I prefer ‘facts’ when engaged in discussions; not hearsay and tautological rubbish that some others seem to regard as promising material.” }

And if we need any further historical proof of why this is essential we can't go past many of the Ken Cannane & AMROBA references on the subject. In particular I refer to the latest AMROBA newsletter - Volume 12 Issue 9 (September 15)

Ref page 2-3:

2. Regulatory Reform Keeps General Aviation in the Past

For 30 years regulatory reform has been reshaping the same requirements over and over again.

Without conceptual change to the structure of the regulatory framework, government will continue to produce recycled ideas and concepts. This cannot continue – a complete conceptual change is required to properly empower the general aviation individuals and organisations to enhance safety and once again grow this industry...

Ref page 3-4:

Is the Civil Aviation Act supporting General Aviation?

When the ASRR Report recommendations were almost totally supported by the government, AMROBA made a submission to government stating that many provisions of the Act would need amending to permanently implement the recommendations of that Review. If the Act is not changed then this or the next regime of CASA will revert to the same processes that continues to create unrest, thus requiring another government funded review into aviation.

The basic problem with the Act is Sec. 98 where government/CASA have made numerous changes over the years because they will not use Sec 9(1)© to promulgate Aviation Safety Standards, as proposed by the ASRR Report. Basically, the Report states, to comply with Article 37 of the Chicago Convention, the Sec 9(1)© Standards should be consistent to the Convention and other mature aviation systems like Europe, North America and NZ.

However, as industry has experienced in the past, implementing the recommendations depends on public servants and, in particular, those in the Department of Infrastructure to make changes to the Civil Aviation Act to make these changes permanent. When compared to the NZ Act, the current Act does not have the same detail based on the Convention Articles...

Okay enough for now, I'm sure "K" & others can fill in the gaps..



MTF? - Definitely..P2