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OF DICKS AND GOBBLES

I did a fair amount of relaxed reading today; looking at our Act, along with the British version and of course New Zealand’s version. NZ words it pretty well. Their charter is detailed and covers, in part, economics of industry as a consideration. It’s worth a read and is too big to cut and paste here.

Dicks recommendation to changing the wording of the Act is as follows;

“CASA must seek to achieve the highest level of safety in air navigation that is consistent with;
(a) Maintaining an efficient and sustainable Australian aviation
industry, including a viable general aviation and training sector
(b) The need for more people to benefit from civil aviation

I’m happy with that. It’s an improvement and a huge step forward.

To add a little more seasoning; here is MY VERSION;
 
“CASA commits to achieving the highest level of safety in air navigation that is consistent with;
1. Maintaining an efficient and sustainable Australian aviation
industry, including a viable general aviation and training sector;
2. The need for more people to benefit from civil aviation;
3. Partnering with industry when considering the needs or changes to the safety, economical, and technological structure of the current and future Australian aviation system.

In short, there must be a change to the way Aviation is viewed by the Australian Governments bureaucracy, CAsA. We are not illegitimate criminals seeking to break the law of the Commonwealth at every breathing minute. There must be a change to the Act and strict liability. The CAsA machine has outlived its purpose. It is a dinosaur, a Cold War relic that does not measure up today’s standards on any continent. The likes of Carmody and Aleck have, and are, destroying a vital element of Australia. They do it without remorse, without recompense, without reason and without accountability. It must stop now!

By contrast, and for those that do not know, as an aviation industry, who are we?Well, we are;
- business owners,
- law adhering safety professionals,
- sons, fathers and grandfathers,
- safety focused,
- entrepreneurs,
- taxpaying, wealth creating, industry growing contributors to the Australian economy
- reformers, innovators, repairers, leaders,
- generous, self sacrificing, loyal and reasonable

Yes, that is who we are. We are contributors to what is Australia. We deserve the respect, support and acknowledgement of being exactly that. As Dick has mentioned, to exit the 1960’s and move forward into the future the Government must CHANGE THE ACT!!!