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Obfuscation rule 102: Divide & Conquer.


Now the miniscule might think his statement today is addressing the above TAAAF concerns but it is quite obvious that this is yet another stalling tactic by the bureaucracy.

Murky and his minions are still trying to argue the toss that the ASRR is one opinion.

Ironically that one opinion just so happens to reflect the opinion of the biggest collective group of industry participants (i.e. TAAAF).

It is my understanding that AOPA is now included as an active TAAAF member, so why is the miniscule apparently now trying to drive a wedge between different sectors of the industry i.e. General Aviation - GA vs rest of industry??   

Update to miniscule DDDD Chester's (broken record) review announcement yesterday -

First from Kharon:  

Please. Somebody, tackle this Fool.

If I could be bothered to dig it out, there is a long list which itemises government funded  ‘reviews’ and ‘inquiries’ and ‘investigations’ into matters aeronautical. There is one from the Senate, way back, which, I believe, still holds the record for being the longest, deepest, most detailed: some fantastic amount of time and money was spent to sort it out, once and for all. The list is now long, and growing.  The costs fabulous, the results negligible. Proof absolute of many things, but the stand out constant is simple enough to understand. THEY DON’T WORK. It is a repetitive cycle, the same moves, the same result, every time.

But, for those who may be new to the great game; or, have only just become aware that perhaps there really is something rotten in Denmark; allow me to draw your attention to events in recent memory.

Pel-Air ditched an aircraft; the Senate SC called an ‘inquiry’, which ran for quite a while. It cost a small fortune, in effort, time and money and produced two major items of interest.  To wit, scathing condemnation of both the ATSB and CASA; and, some 30 odd serious recommendations.

Following the SSC inquiry, the good Rev. Forsyth and his compardres set out on an ‘independent’ quest to determine what could be done for ‘best’. It cost a small fortune in effort, time and money and produced two major items of interest. Scathing condemnation of both the ATSB and CASA; and, some 30 odd serious recommendations.

As a result the Canadian TSB were asked to conduct an ‘independent’ peer review. It cost a small fortune in effort, time and money, and produced – you guessed it – Yup more condemnation and more recommendations.

Now, look about you; let’s call it 80, serious, expensive, far reaching recommendations; from independent ‘expert’ sources; bought and paid for by the ‘tax-payer’.  Then on one hand count the number of tangible results from those inquiries and resultant recommendations.  I’ll save you the brain work – there ain’t any. Not one single solitary improvement in any god damned area; in fact things have actually regressed.

Now this idiot who has managed to escape his village – or lost it; wants to pull on another ‘inquiry’ or a ‘review’ as he calls it. It is a calculated, cynical insult to a fine Senate Standing Committee, David Forsyth, the industry and the long suffering over taxed public. The announcement insults the intelligence, demeans industry and put’s a final confirmation to the notion that Chester and his trough buddy are taking the Mickey Bliss (and the money)…

Chester needs to get his advice right – it is not just industry having the piss taken out of them; he is the final victim, because who ever is advising him is definitely taking the piss from him. He who laugh’s last is Chester’s advisor. Chester is as dumb as dog pooh, NFI and relies heavily, pathetically on ‘advice’.  The last thing his ‘advisors’ must do before going to sleep is have a good laugh at his expense. Me, if I thought about it that way, I’d laugh too.

Pathetic response from a pathetic individual, the man should be making advertorials and flogging off the latest in ‘product’ on the morning TV shows; not be responsible for a huge, important portfolio.  When he can find a hole in a whorehouse, with a spotlight, I may even spare a thought for his ‘advised’ mouthing’s; ‘till then, I shall continue to regard him as a fool. The village idiot at large.

Toot –FFS– toot.

Next via Oz Aviation:

Government launches major study into GA sector
October 28, 2016 By australianaviation.com.au 1 Comment
The federal government has launched what it termed a major study into the general aviation (GA) sector in response to the concerns expressed by …

..The announcement of a major study into general aviation comes after the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of Australia (AOPA) presented a nine-point plan to the government in April aimed to turn around a GA sector that was slowly dying and “collapsing under the weight of regulation”.


Part of AOPA’s proposed reforms included changes to the Civil Aviation Act that require regulators to take into account “industry viability, efficiency and sustainability”, and for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to be renamed the Civil Aviation Authority and be absorbed back into the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development.

There were also calls to enforce rules that provided security of tenure for aviation businesses at airports, for the adoption of a US-style suite of regulatory rules to replace the current Civil Aviation Orders and Regulations, for the reintroduction of TAFE funding to boost aviation apprenticeships and the harmonisation of medical certification for recreational and GA private pilots for all recreational aviation aircraft (those weighing less than 5,700kg)...

“AOPA is making what to us is seen as a last stand against inappropriate government industry regulation that has decimated our once thriving GA industry,” AOPA Australia president Marc De Stoop said at the time.

“It may sound melodramatic to those not associated with the industry, but those of us who have been in the industry through the period 1960-1990 feel very frustrated that government bureaucrats, through lack of understanding of the need for businesses to be commercially viable, have failed this industry.”

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This article also included one comment from Ben:

Ben says

[url=http://australianaviation.com.au/2016/10/government-launches-study-into-ga-sector/#comment-44602]October 28, 2016 at 8:15 pm
This is welcome news, but I worry that it will be overtaken by simplistic CASA-bashing. We know that GA is bloody expensive compared to even ten years ago, and while safety regulation is one reason for this it is far from the only one. By focusing on just CASA we risk ignoring the other economic factors, making this whole process a waste of time.

P2 - Ben, this is not about CASA bashing mate, this is more about - why another review? FDS!  

Finally an email intercept courtesy Sandy... :

Which review? BITRE? Obviously they don't have enough to do. Costing???

This thought could go to all of them, but pertinent to the latest. One contact said he hoped this one would at last persuade government....

Which prompted me to write similarly thus:-

..In regard to the outcome of the review;  please do not hope 'this time',  it will not be different. 


Just look at the timeline. It's expected to complete by June '17. Expected....ok there is room for slippage. Then the government, read CASA, decides, just like ASSR, to accept some recommendations 'in principle' and so it goes. The pattern is totally clear, a little fiddling around the edges and that's it, straight onto the next review. Another few hundred perfectly fit older pilots will give up or have their AVMED comeuppances. 


Hopefulness by the aviation community is exactly what government wishes for because then people wait patiently and uncomplaining whilst the merry old CASA stream roller and attendant gravy train rolls on. 


What a party, huge pay increases, fantastic working (?) conditions, super, trips abroad, seminars. Skidmore found twenty-six employees, his Tiger Team, doing nothing to put to work(?) on fixing the mucked up rules they had devised and promulgated just months before. Ask yourself what were they doing beforehand? You wouldn't believe such irresponsible and atrocious governance if it wasn't true. Cost? Don't ask... 


This has been the modus operandi for thirty years. There is no appetite in government for reform because the bureaucracy plays the safety card over and over again and we just keep on in a state of denial, "it can't be that bad", and then hope that the next review is the final one. 


Time to focus on reality;  it is them against us and our prosperous freedom in order to protect their privilege. It's as plain as the nose on your face. 

   

MTF...P2

Ps For those who feel equally as passionate, as Sandy or Kharon, about this issue but for whatever reason might wish to remain anonymous, please feel free to email or PM me direct through my AP listed contacts your thoughts etc. and I will edit & post for you - P2