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AMROBA Newsletter, plus Breaking News - 

Courtesy AMROBA, via the AP emails:

To all members and associates.

With the political scene changing so much, it is hard to see a prosperous future pathway considering that a 2-year regulatory reform program carried out in many nations in the 1990s still hasn’t been completed in Australia.  Ministers have directed regulations to be adopted and made years ago.  It is 2026 and still hasn’t been done.

The reform project entered the big hangar in Cbr and has been become a hangar queen seeming never to be completed.

If you review Sect 98 of the Civil Aviation Act, there is no direction to provide harmonised ICAO SARP based regulations, nor is there a direction to give effect to ICAO SARPs unless CASA determines they affect safety.

Apolitical Action:

Have had a couple of conversations with Ben Morgan recently, Ben has spoken with One Nation re their civil aviation policy, especially with her new Cirrus SR22 G7.

One nation looks like becoming a real political force, so we need to know their policies.

AMROBA is willing to join forces with AOPA, SAAA and other associations to have another summit in Wagga Wagga and invite the local Member McCormack, One Nation, current  Minister, other parties, if interested, using a similar format to our last summit

Proposed date August 8th (Saturday):

In accordance with our last summit, can members input with the major points they want correct industry can prosper.

April-May Newsletter Articles

• Government without vision or care - Only Australia has been able to stretch basic regulatory reform/harmonisation over 3 decades. Every other country completed within 5 years.What basically started as adopting the FARs, Australianised to align with other Australian legislation/regulation, has become a yearly review.
  

• Sec 98 of the Act is included to show it lacks direction that will achieve harmonisation as it limits CASA to safety matters that excludes the efficiencies of SARPs. The requirement to promote civil aviation and attain agreements with other nations is missing. A copy of the US legislation that requires to FAA to promote aspects of civil is needed in Australia.
  

• Even the Department’s assignment of responsibility of the Annexes too different Department shows how hard to coordinate when CASA shares responsibilities with, for example. Look at Annex 1, for example. CASA shares this with Defence but the national trade educator, DEWR, is not included.
  

The process used to make CASR Part 21 needs to be applied to Part 43 asap

Ken Cannane

Executive Director

AMROBA

Phone: (02) 97592715

Mobile: 0408029329

www.amroba.org.au

Safety All Around.

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Plus 'Breaking News':

To all members and associates,

Breaking News – Proposed Aircraft Registration Fee

1. This government has had aircraft registration fee in their policy document for some 30 years.
We are now advised CASA will start consultation next year to introduce these fees.

CASA CEO extended contract will probably cover the making of legislation for the fee to start.

Some 30 years back, the ALP decided aircraft owners who didn't pay a passenger levy were to pay a registration fee for their aircraft.

NZ has a registration fee for this purpose and it is based on size and weight of the aircraft.

NZ includes sport and recreational aircraft.

It is used as part of the funds for the CAA(NZ) to operate.

It doesn’t take much to realise government sees this as a way to fund CASA.

The problem is, we are already talking of exempting RAAus registered aircraft.

Previously, AOPA argued for a fuel tax in lieu of a registration fee.

So the tax will stay on fuel, and add the registration fee.

2. CASA is once again consulting on deleting a number of “legacy ADs” that no longer has a regulatory head of power to support them.

With the introduction of CASR Part 21 in 1998, several aircraft certification CAOs were repealed.

One of these CAOs required Part 23 aircraft to be fatigue assessed. This was unique to Australia.

Post making Part 21, an internal working group that later included some experienced industry reps, were tasked with identifying ADs to be repealed and ones to be added to CASR Part 90.

Other NAAs have already cancelled their ADs based on Australian ADs that were never supported by the NAAs responsible to aircraft type design and manufacture.
The purpose of CASR Part 21, especially TACs, was to rely on the NAA responsible for design/manufacture to issue mandatory requirements at certification and ongoing continuing airworthiness.
We have had previous CASA CEOs agreed to cancel these ADs.
Maybe it will happen post this consultation.

Ken Cannane

Executive Director

AMROBA

Phone: (02) 97592715

Mobile: 0408029329

www.amroba.org.au

Safety All Around.

 
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