Two hammers - one nail.
Hitch hits the nail, fair and square;
“I don't think even the ATSB has answers regardless of all the messages they and CASA send out.”
as did TOM.
Got me thinking - . One of the tragic repercussions of ATSB and CASA loosing ‘street cred’ is that ‘safety messages’ don’t get delivered. The ATSB gobbleldy-gook, beyond reason reports are dismissed out of hand – the lack of respect for FOI and their prattling produce lip service and serve only to pave a way to ‘get around’ their anally retentive pronouncement on what is ‘safe’ - for them. Perhaps there’s a real, vital role for the ‘Alphabet Soup Groups’ to play here. A crowd like AOPA or similar could provide some of the old ‘Crash Comic’ tales; “I learnt about Flying from that – as part of a news letter – or even a BBQ night and a short lecture, with Q&A on the selected subject. Don’t reckon it would cost a lot – these days through ‘conference’ hook up’s – like Skype – I reckon two or three flying schools or clubs could participate. Even the esteemed Australian Flying could reproduce some of the oldies but goodies. A proactive stand to real safety, in the real world, by real people with credibility needs to be taken. We are loosing too many to the old killers.
There – I feel better having got that off my chest.
Toot - Right then, back to my knitting –toot.
Hitch hits the nail, fair and square;
“I don't think even the ATSB has answers regardless of all the messages they and CASA send out.”
as did TOM.
Quote:One of the reasons I miss the old Air Safety Digest (ASD) is that it never failed to provide a timely reminder to both old and new generations of airmen (I do include the ladies in the honorific title ‘airmen’) of the old killers – Carby ice for example; VFR into IMC; all the ‘traditional’ killers of aircraft and crew and some ‘new’ wrinkles in the old rules which govern that mysterious ethos ‘airmanship’. Fuel injection, GPS, auto pilots which work, cool head sets which take away the noise, no requirement for position reports, radio generated landing bills and a solid belief that ‘our’ engine will never quit; all lull us into a ‘false’ sense of security; a cocoon of belief that all will turn out well in the end, the legislation assures us of this – we are all so much ‘safer’ now.
And yet the grim reaper still earns a crust from the same old traps. Murphy has never resigned and continues to enjoy his law. But then; and not be mawkish, perhaps fate is the hunter after all. Don’t know – who’s to say you won’t get out of bed, feeling great and fall over the cat – land on your head and it’s lights out. Be careful, but not afraid; there are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but very few old, bold pilots.
Enough said: “set ‘em up here barkeep, we shall drink a quiet toast to those gone before us, to await our arrival".
Got me thinking - . One of the tragic repercussions of ATSB and CASA loosing ‘street cred’ is that ‘safety messages’ don’t get delivered. The ATSB gobbleldy-gook, beyond reason reports are dismissed out of hand – the lack of respect for FOI and their prattling produce lip service and serve only to pave a way to ‘get around’ their anally retentive pronouncement on what is ‘safe’ - for them. Perhaps there’s a real, vital role for the ‘Alphabet Soup Groups’ to play here. A crowd like AOPA or similar could provide some of the old ‘Crash Comic’ tales; “I learnt about Flying from that – as part of a news letter – or even a BBQ night and a short lecture, with Q&A on the selected subject. Don’t reckon it would cost a lot – these days through ‘conference’ hook up’s – like Skype – I reckon two or three flying schools or clubs could participate. Even the esteemed Australian Flying could reproduce some of the oldies but goodies. A proactive stand to real safety, in the real world, by real people with credibility needs to be taken. We are loosing too many to the old killers.
There – I feel better having got that off my chest.
Toot - Right then, back to my knitting –toot.