by K_P9 | Aug 20, 2016 | Accidents and Inquiry, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
“The ATSB found that the dispatcher for YID could not visually confirm the position of VGR relative to gate D2 and assessed that because the aircraft hadn’t moved, it was on the gate. The pushback ground staff followed the normal practice for a pushback from bay...
by K_P9 | Aug 12, 2016 | Accidents and Inquiry, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
I’ve cribbed Thony’s post from the UP; it’s done very nicely and avoids dropping some poor bugger ‘right init’. The fear of retribution for speaking out, first hand against such aberrations keeps chief pilots all over Australia awake at night. Furious at the...
by K_P9 | Aug 12, 2016 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
Higgins : “CASA’s continual refusal to review the CAO 48.1 in the context of directive 01/2015 flies in the face of CASA’s new mantra of being a “fair, firm and consistent’’ regulator.” From AP – Here-. Good point; a very good point indeed: a quick straw poll...
by K_P9 | Jul 8, 2016 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
Does Australian aviation cares who forms a government? The short answer is no. In fact the closer the two parties are to a ‘hung’ parliament, the better the chances of actually getting the appalling state of aviation administration and the costs the current situation...
by K_P9 | Jul 3, 2016 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
Quote:TB – “In other words CAsA is a joke internationally, very embarrassing.” Not so, according to Skidmore. He is actually bragging, to all and sundry that administrations from all over the world ring him to discover, for themselves just how the Australian system...