[Earl Lank]

For clarification, "OCVA" means the Operational Colour Vision Assessment". It is the Assessment implemented in NZ and was the Assessment adopted by CASA for Australian purposes. The OCVA was then dumped by CASA, without notice and explanation, about 18 months ago.

CASA Avmed decided that it will reinvent the wheel and call its invention the "ACVA" - the Australian Colour Vision Assessment. The air and colours in Australia are, of course, different to the rest of the world and CASA Avmed knows best.

An FOI request for access to the documents showing the decision-making process and evidence taken into consideration leading to these decisions was too hard for CASA to comply with. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is now reviewing, at my request, CASA's refusal.

CASA Avmed continues to stuff around, with no commitment to an implementation date for the ACVA, which will almost certainly be a colour vision test poorly disguised as the simulation of an operational situation. CASA Avmed does all this with insouciant indifference to the stress and upheaval caused to their CVD guinea pigs by the unannounced changes and uncertainty.

This is yet another disgraceful manifestation of governance failures in CASA.