by K_P9 | Oct 3, 2015 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
P1 – Opinion. Started off peacefully enough – HERE – one of the crew found a very good aviation related website and copied a well drafted opinion piece on the Pel-Air ditching. PAIN has been patiently waiting for the new CASA CEO to give a sign that reformation of...
by K_P9 | Oct 1, 2015 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
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...
by K_P9 | Sep 25, 2015 | Accidents and Inquiry, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
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...
by K_P9 | Sep 23, 2015 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
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...
by K_P9 | Sep 20, 2015 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
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...