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Once a Pilot always a Criminal - FFS Miniscule wake the [email=f#@k]f#@k[/email] up!

Courtesy Lead Balloon from the UP on proposed new CASA fuel policy & criminality - UFB!

I get it now. Someone who makes a deliberate decision to continue to the original destination and land with reserve minus 1 litre intact without declaring an emergency, rather than take an available diversion option, is a criminal. I think the penalty should be increased to a substantial gaol term, to ensure such recklessly criminal activity never happens.

I look forward to some a*seclown trying to prove it did it, given that I can choose to plan and actually cruise at fuel flows spanning a range of about 20 litres per hour, and I have 22 litres of unusable fuel that I frequently use.

& from Ultralights..

i can see it now, 15 mins out of Bankstown, last fuel check calculation, oh SH**, im going to land using 2 ltrs into my reserve! MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY! no, im not in imminent danger tower, just going to land with 43 mins reserve, thats all, yes, i know i called mayday, im 15 mins out.. CASA greet you on the ground, fuel measurement taken, oh, look, i stuffed up a calculation, i actually have 48 mins of fuel left, sorry about that..

or, as someone else quoted from another forum,

"Extra 300 XYZ taxying for airdisplay overhead, mayday mayday mayday fuel, lining up runway 23"

Well with the absolute absurdity of the possible implications of that proposed new rule set from CASA, I note today that the Miniscule for Aviation is adding fuel to the fire that all pilots & mariners are criminals until proven otherwise -

Serious or organised crime stopped at the border

Media Release

DC019/2016

16 March 2016

Joint release with:

Michael Keenan

Minister for Justice and

Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for

Counter-Terrorism

Security will be tightened at Australia's airports and seaports following the passage of key legislation through the House of Representatives.

Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester said the legislation, which relates to the Aviation and Maritime Security Identification Card schemes, was aimed at preventing serious and organised crime activity.

“Today the Transport Security Amendment (Serious or Organised Crime) Bill 2016 has passed the House of Representatives without amendment,” Mr Chester said.

“The Bill delivers on the Government's commitment to ensure that people with a relevant criminal history can never receive a security clearance to work at our airports or seaports.

“This is a critical step in securing our transport infrastructure against crime or future criminal influences.”

Supporting the amendments, the Minister for Justice and the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Counter-Terrorism Michael Keenan said the Bill delivers on the Coalition Government's election commitment to strengthen the system and fight serious and organised crime at our ports and seaports.

“All Australians have high expectations of individuals with access to secure areas of our airports and seaports given that they are in positions of trust,” Mr Keenan said.

“The Coalition Government changes mean Australia's airports and seaports will be less susceptible to exploitation from serious or organised crime.

“We know that Australia has become a target for organised criminals from all around the world because Australians are paying top dollar for the misery these crooks peddle—like the drug ice.


“Further, these changes will deliver on our commitment to implement the National Ice Taskforce's recommendations, specifically to strengthen the ASIC and MSIC schemes to limit the distribution of ice throughout the community.”

If the Bill passes the Senate, it is intended that the reforms will become effective from 1 July 2016.

 
I am starting to lean towards Leady's sentiment that the Miniscule & his CASA planted adviser are just providing a filter to Barnaby & CO:

Do Nothing Darren

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Folks,

I don't know much about the new Minister, so I have been doing a bit of homework.

First up, was the nickname "do nothing Darren", is this deserved?? Have we replaced Action Man Truss with another Ball of Fire who will sort aviation, or another "new" conductor playing the Aviation Funeral March??

An instant captive of the "mystique of aviation safety"???

He has been described in the local meeja as "The George Clooney of Gippsland", is this fair to Gippsland??

Do you get any impression that he even knows aviation, let alone GA, exists?? All his early speeches and media releases are not promising, have any of them even mentioned aviation, as opposed to railways, ships and roads, and roads and ship and railways, then ships, roads and railways.??

Tootle pip!!

&..

Voice for Aviation or Cuckoo in the Nest.

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Folks,

As some of you will be aware, the new Minister for Infrastructure and Transport has a new Aviation Adviser.

He is Steven Campbell, who has a most interesting CV (according to Linked In) starting as a GA instructor, CFI at Tyabb, moving up a traditional path into Regionals, and then cracking it with Cathay, where it looks like he finished up on B777 as a Training Captain.

Then --- maybe --- it all changes, joining CASA and eventually becoming Project Manager for Part 61/141/142. The greatest disaster in the history of aviation regulation in Australia.

Any body know if he has quit CASA, or is he on secondment/leave of absence to go to the Minister's office.

Is he going to be a voice for industry, and what must be done, including fair dinkum action on the Forsyth Report ??

Or is he a very cunning CASA plant, to sell the CASA line that everything is really hunky dory in Australian aviation, it's just a matter of industry malcontents getting too much publicity, Senators who are an irritant, and the NZ rules won't work, because they "don't meet Commonwealth legislative drafting protocols" ( like much other Commonwealth legislation that comes from O/S, that has been "incorporated by reference" in Australian legislation).

And Parts 61/141/142 are really groundbreaking pieces of legislation that other NAA are panting to copy --- according to the CASA "official" line.

Tootle pip!!

& from Frank Arouet..

It's being suggested on other sites that this appointment is Barnaby's way to keep him further away from the CAsA fire. Something he probably deduced was a major problem for Truss. I doubt it will work as the "buck" as opposed to the "duck" always stops somewhere, usually at the top.

So it would seem that the new Miniscule is purely a filter for the top-dogs, like Barnaby & Co, to avoid all awkward 'mystique of aviation safety' issues.

We have an industry that is currently seriously at risk of extinction due to the political elite leaving it to the bureaucrats to obfuscate all possible regulatory & CASA reform - well duck that! Either Barnaby, Chester & Nash, start kicking some bureaucratic asses or they will face the Sunfish Aviation negative electioneering campaign in all their marginal seats -  

MTF...P2