by Sarcs | Aug 5, 2023 | Accidents and Inquiry, ASA, ATSB, Aunty Pru - First solo, Aviation Safety, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
Fairly strong theme here on Airports, starting with this week’s #SBG: Three or four heartbeats. Apart from the bare fact that there has been a collision between two light aircraft at Caboolture (Qld) claiming two lives, there’s little in the way of...
by Sarcs | Jan 14, 2019 | Accidents and Inquiry, ASA, ATSB, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
“Let sleeping dogs lie — who wants to rouse them?” – AP Forum version. My old companion Charles Dickens wrote that line in David Copperfield (1850). Most folk are aware of the first part and what it means; but the rest of the sentence poses a...
by Sarcs | Feb 11, 2018 | Accidents and Inquiry, ASA, ATSB, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
“Never laugh at live dragons.” ―J.R.R Tolkien, The Hobbit A lack of foreknowledge is a very dangerous thing –well, it is. Think about it; it is probably one of the most dangerous things in the world. If you are standing on a railway track and don’t know there’s a...
by K_P9 | Jan 26, 2016 | Accidents and Inquiry, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
The Aunty Pru thread – Closing-the Safety-Loop – was among the first to be initialised. Before the matters discussed were brought to pubic attention by Senator David Fawcett (SA) the PAIN associates were researching the official response to recommendations made by...
by K_P9 | Jul 7, 2015 | Accidents and Inquiry, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
I have now tried several times to shape a post which defines, in a nut shell, the case against the CASA actions framed within the CVD argument. Can’t do it; just end up hammering the keyboard and listing every curse and swear word I have in my lexicon. Waste of...