Good post GD, nicely done and informative. (Yeah, CF quality) but it do beg a question or two.
Now if CASA was a trusted, honest operator we could all say ‘on ya’ for looking a little deeper into a ‘suspect’ operation. In fact we would applaud the action, there’s our trusty CASA making sure everything is according to Hoyle. But in this case, instead of taking a little look under their own banner, they have chosen to play with the very flexible rules and get the low down from the supposedly independent ATSB. CASA can, at the drop of a hat ‘investigate’, so why the long, sneaky way around? Only ask as it has me puzzled.
The other item that causes concern is the almost casual way the ‘confidentiality’ of a report and investigation by the autonomous ATSB can be ‘stepped around’. If the CASA have ‘suspicions’, why can’t they just saddle up and go kick some arse, under their own ‘flexible’, powerful remit?
Must be a question of budgets and OH&S considerations, can’t be that they are just too bone idle and have the confidentiality system kicked into a cocked hat. Nah.
Perhaps I’m just too old, cynical and have seen too much of CASA safety pantomimes.
Now if CASA was a trusted, honest operator we could all say ‘on ya’ for looking a little deeper into a ‘suspect’ operation. In fact we would applaud the action, there’s our trusty CASA making sure everything is according to Hoyle. But in this case, instead of taking a little look under their own banner, they have chosen to play with the very flexible rules and get the low down from the supposedly independent ATSB. CASA can, at the drop of a hat ‘investigate’, so why the long, sneaky way around? Only ask as it has me puzzled.
The other item that causes concern is the almost casual way the ‘confidentiality’ of a report and investigation by the autonomous ATSB can be ‘stepped around’. If the CASA have ‘suspicions’, why can’t they just saddle up and go kick some arse, under their own ‘flexible’, powerful remit?
Must be a question of budgets and OH&S considerations, can’t be that they are just too bone idle and have the confidentiality system kicked into a cocked hat. Nah.
Perhaps I’m just too old, cynical and have seen too much of CASA safety pantomimes.