You know boys; you could, as Pel-Air did, provide a positive proof analysis of the potential areas which will, in time, produce Australia’s first major incident.
You will also be in the box seat for the ‘we told you so’ prize.
Will that change anything – even after the event. In short NO. The problem, IMO, lays within the structure of the system. Join CASA = instant expert. Work for ATSB = my way or the highway or live with your good work reduced to a ploy involving which version of ICAO Annexe 13 was in play at the time. Don’t believe Senator Fawcett has forgotten that one, do you? Or you could invoke the ASA and reveal the problems their approach to airspace management provides for our ATC and the aircrew who suffer daily to manage the requirements of system which was and remains based on the DC3 (little bit of poetic licence there; but you get my drift).
In short, have a beer, some well earned time with the family, leave it alone. Nothing, bar a major hull and life loss will have any impact; and, “we warned you” that a combination of government approved factors will, eventually, combine to create a major event will be of little satisfaction.
Can we prevent this? Yes, if we move swiftly and positively. Will that happen? No, the history of real change and the mystique is against you.
The BRB will be having a dedicated session on the Reluctance to Change (RTC) ethos, where, to protect rice bowls, the government agencies will and do, go to extraordinary lengths, to convince Ministers, the public and the aviation world that they; and, they alone are the experts. Which is a total bollocks.
MTF – Oh you bet.
You will also be in the box seat for the ‘we told you so’ prize.
Will that change anything – even after the event. In short NO. The problem, IMO, lays within the structure of the system. Join CASA = instant expert. Work for ATSB = my way or the highway or live with your good work reduced to a ploy involving which version of ICAO Annexe 13 was in play at the time. Don’t believe Senator Fawcett has forgotten that one, do you? Or you could invoke the ASA and reveal the problems their approach to airspace management provides for our ATC and the aircrew who suffer daily to manage the requirements of system which was and remains based on the DC3 (little bit of poetic licence there; but you get my drift).
In short, have a beer, some well earned time with the family, leave it alone. Nothing, bar a major hull and life loss will have any impact; and, “we warned you” that a combination of government approved factors will, eventually, combine to create a major event will be of little satisfaction.
Can we prevent this? Yes, if we move swiftly and positively. Will that happen? No, the history of real change and the mystique is against you.
The BRB will be having a dedicated session on the Reluctance to Change (RTC) ethos, where, to protect rice bowls, the government agencies will and do, go to extraordinary lengths, to convince Ministers, the public and the aviation world that they; and, they alone are the experts. Which is a total bollocks.
MTF – Oh you bet.