[Kharon]

Ah yes; I remember it well.

I can never read the first paragraph of the McComic mission statement without going back to the darkest of times when anything and everything was countenanced; provided the preordained result was achieved.  

Adherence to CASA’s authoriszed policies will almost always produce an appropriate decision. As said, however, from time to time there will be circumstances in which the strict application of policy may not result in the “preferable” decision. In these cases it may be appropriate (and possibly necessary) to depart from otherwise applicable policy.

And wasn’t that taken literally; open season on industry and a chapter of shame in the long, bloody history of our ‘regulator’. The simple fact that whatsisname – Skidmoron – failed to sign it; the shrine to McComic preserved in it’s original vile state and still active. What chance does the good Rev. Forsyth’s R 37 stand against such engineered intent to never, ever change anything CASA does. They are addicted to the untrammelled power built into every comma, full stop and wriggle room paragraph, used to justify the truly disgraceful behaviour of some of their crew.

The entire aviation world, let alone Australia should be demanding the immediate breakup of the E&EC; simply for the sake of clarity. The ICC and the Board should hold the power to decide whether the actions of CASA personnel have been righteous. Those decisions need to made available to interested parties, not buried in some secret archive kept deeply hidden within the bowels of the organisation.  Those decisions made by the clandestine E&EC could serve all manner of questionable practice and due to the secretive nature of process, the odd whiff of rank corruption could be suspected.

The McComic statement, tacitly supported by Skidmoron stands as testament to the absolute determination of the ‘iron wrong’ to persist in their quest for unlimited power, under black letter law, with strict liability and the power of ruling ‘at their discretion’, to their satisfaction.  That, and the ability to protect and succour the hand picked willing accomplices who support the tenet and perform the allotted tasks needs immediate eradication, with malice aforethought.  

Aye, embuggerance, without hindrance is a fine thing for those dishing it out. A ‘selfie’ of DDDD Chester tearing up the McComic version of ‘enforcement’ would go a long, long way toward resolving the problems of the industry he feels he is not responsible for.

Toot – rant over – toot. Feel much better now.