The quiet, but persistent beating of distant drums.
The Mandarin is a superb publication which just as quietly and persistently keeps presenting top quality reporting of important matters. I don’t even begin to understand ‘politics’ and apart from the antics of our ‘aviation agencies’ have little interest in the...
More noise, no traction and less action.
Good for Hitch, agree GD, at least you don’t need the hardworking bucket at hand to read his commentary. Commentary which, as far as it goes is balanced and reasoned; I just wonder if Hitch and other similar commentators will go a little deeper. The reform of the...
A horseshoe nail.
The head of the Skidmore snake is trapped in a cleft stick; there are , he says, no rules to fall back on should Part 61 be rolled back; which is a bollocks. But, you can see the problem. Countless hours and dollars have been invested by operators in ‘compliance’ and...
A half dozen things Turnbull could do for aviation.
A half dozen things Turnbull could do for aviation. I believe it would take the PM less than a hour to earn some significant brown-eye points and settle the aviation ‘scuffles’. Think of all the happy people associated with aviation telling their nearest, dearest and...
The pledge, where the magician shows you something ordinary.
Quote:Page 10 - CHAIR: But there would be other issues besides this damn invoice. Mr Harfield: No, that is the only issue to do with Mr and Mrs Hind. That was it and, as I said, that was picked up. Senator BULLOCK: I get the feeling that it is the attitude of...
How the Senate ‘perceived’ the possibility of probity.
Page five: Sterle and Heffernan take us tantalizingly close the ‘nub’ and set up the board for a breach of the ASA Houstoblame defence: it is an interesting construct and for those interested in the finer points, worth reading. The results of the construct, the...