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Barry O, Mr McFixit and the ICAO snowjob - 

BO - "..We've received correspondence in response to our request about the notifications of differences to ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices from the department. With the concurrence of my colleagues, we will table it and recommend it be published. There may be colleagues who have some questions for you on it..."


Hello Earth to Senator Rex this was your first opportunity and again you muffed it..  

Of course you had a Chair that was running interference but then you had another perfect opportunity to talk to the Horse's head, i.e the person that supposedly authored that ICAO SARPs notified differences bollocks correspondence:   

Looking into the background/CV of one Mr McRandle (i.e McFixit) there are some 'passing strange' dots and dashes that seriously need connecting...  

BRENDAN MCRANDLE

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AVIATION AND AIRPORTS

DEPARTMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CITIES

BIO

Brendan is the Executive Director of Aviation and Airports Division within the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development.

Brendan has worked with the Department since 2006, initially in the Australian Transport Safety Bureau before moving to different areas on the Department as his career progressed. Immediately prior to joining the Aviation and Airports Division, Brendan was the Executive Director of the Western Sydney Unit and responsible for the second Sydney airport project.

Aviation and Airports Business Division contributes to the well-being of all Australians by fostering a competitive, sustainable and safe aviation sector through appropriate regulation, program delivery and policy development.

The primary role of the Aviation and Airports Division is to advise the Government on the policy and regulatory framework for the Australian aviation and airports industries.

The Division manages the continuing relationship between the Government and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), Airservices Australia (Airservices) and Australia's airlines. It also manages Australia's participation in the work of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and provides the secretariat for the International Air Services Commission (IASC).

  
Apparently BM was awarded a PSM (Public service Medal) in this year's Australia Day awards:

Brendan McRandle, from the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities was awarded a PSM for his work on the development and delivery of the Western Sydney Airport project to the construction stage. Brendan was part of the Towards Strategic Leadership program in 2009.

Yet less than a month after receiving that award and some 8 years before the current forecasted completion of the West Sydney Airport project; BM is effectively sidelined to what has to be regarded as a lesser position in the Dept as Executive Director of the Aviation and Airports division - WTD?   
 Reference: Ms Kim Forbes, A/g General Manager, Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities - Notable absences and structural changes in the portfolio 19/02/2018
PDF 193KB  

As a passing strange coincidence (or not) the McFixit appointment occurred at around about the time AP, on behalf of KC, made submissions to Sam the ICAO man in Montreal, which ultimately led to my reply correspondence to Dear Lachie -   

 “…For comments on filing of differences, as per Article 38 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation (the Chicago Convention), of which Australia is a signatory, we file a range of differences with ICAO. Airservices Australia regularly publish these in the Aeronautical Information Publication available on their website.  Australia takes a proactive and conservative approach, updating its differences often and reporting any point of difference to allow operators the information they need to conduct safe operations.  


Due the subjective nature of filing differences, the comparison of numbers of differences is not regularly used as a measure.  State’s safety oversight arrangements at ICAO are benchmarked through an assessment process leading to an effective implementation score.  Australia was assessed in October 2017 by ICAO auditors and while the results are yet to be made public it places Australia in the top 10 States for safety oversight compliance…”  

Comment: I am fully cognisant of the Airservices AIRAC publication but disagree with some of the premises and assumptions that you make in the above paragraphs.
 
To begin here is the link for the latest ASA notified differences AIRAC: http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/aip/...7-h136.pdf
 
I guess it could be argued that the AIP SUP does allow operators the information they need to conduct safe operations ?? However whether that information can be easily disseminated when you consider the many 100s of pages and thousands of notified differences that AIP SUP links to is an entirely different matter.
 
In comparison please refer to the five pages of GEN 1.7 of the Singaporean CAAS AIP:  https://www.caas.gov.sg/docs/default-sou...1feb18.pdf

  Which brings me full circle back to the 22 May 2018 letter from Mr McFixit 'regarding ICAO Standards' and that misleading table...  

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Still working on sorting the above figures into a usable reference for comparison purposes but for now if you take the one damning figure of 2445 'for partially implemented or not implemented', Australia is by far and away the worst State for compliance with the ICAO SARPs -   


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