02-10-2016, 06:03 PM
Avmed total ineptitude continues -
The following was sent to me by Sandy in regards to communications with CASA's AVMED office:
Quote:I went to the link from yesterday's AVMED email, copy below, regarding my renewal date which is later this Month. Sure enough I found all the AVMED instructions for my upcoming renewal including taking my general medical history to my DAME.
I was born in Melbourne but the medical records don't seem to be available from that time so I'm behind the eight ball but I recall being sick in bed with a fever at age four.
Do you think they might accept what ever records I can retrieve from, say, the last thirty years? Mind you I fully appreciate that a difficult birth might entail brain damage. This AVMED email did make me consider that I well may have suffered some birth trauma, and therefore the email was a figment of my feverish imagination.
But wait, please see the next AVMED email which followed, I shall forward it in a few minutes.
Sandy
Quote:From: <Medical.Certification@casa.gov.au>
Date: Friday, 5 February 2016
Subject: Your CASA Medical Certificate is due to expire [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
To: Sandy
This email is to advise you that one or more classes of your medical certificate are due to expire.
The new Medical Records System (MRS) will be released on the 21 March 2016 this may change the way in which you go about renewing your certificate during this time.
Please select the date range below that directly relates to when you’re medical is due to expire.
Need more information?
Guidance on getting ready for the new MRS and steps to using the MRS Online is available on the CASA website.
Aviation Medical Certificates
Email: avmed@casa.gov.au
National: 1300 4 AVMED or 1300 4 28633
International: +61 2 6217 1888
Fax: 02 6217 1640
&..it continued
:Quote:This email from CASA AVMED followed.
No explanation is tendered leaving me to wonder if my renewal is not this month after all, or is the given procedure incorrect?
Is this the new CASA Tiger team at work? Eight hundred and thirty personnel @ average $139,000 pa, even only working seven and a half hours per day, should do better.
These words spring to mind:- incompetence, control freakish, and by the fact of no explanation there's an arrogance and carelessness which goes to the heart of this misnomered "Government Business Enterprise", neither is it a business nor enterprising for in the real world of business this tax money black hole would not have lasted more than a couple of months.
The limits of exasperation are clearly nearby,
Sandy
Quote:Good Afternoon,
Earlier this morning you may have received an email from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority advising you that your Medical Certificate was due to expire.
This email was sent in error and we sincerely apologise for any undue concern that this has caused you.
Regards,
Aviation Medical Certificates
Email: avmed@casa.gov.au
National: 1300 4 AVMED or 1300 4 28633
International: +61 2 6217 1888
Fax: 02 6217 1640
So maybe an isolated aberration? - Think again, the following is another email chain from Sandy:
Quote:Open email string, reads in sequence from the AOPA ad below.
Gentlemen as addressed,
Talking with Brian a few days ago he spoke about a long delay in having his AFR processed.
As you no doubt are aware the AFR is newspeak for the former term 'Biennial Flight Review'. When I was conducting those reviews all that was required was a log book statement of completion, so we now have more complexity for no measurable safety benefits.
What is measurable is the degradation of General Aviation by the loss of jobs, avgas fuel sales, expertise, aircraft value (leading to export of same) and encroachment for non aviation purposes over irreplaceable airport land.
What is more important than the details of Brian's AFR renewal is the attitude that nothing can be done. Without some inspiration at the political level, driven by GA industry leaders, Brian's reaction will prevail.
Sandy
Quote:Dear Member,
The industry continues to have major problems with the implementation of the Part 61 licensing regulations. AOPA is trying to collate as many case studies as we can that we can use to publicize the damage that is being done to the industry. To that end we are looking for submissions detailing the problems individual pilots, and GA companies have endured, as well as the subsequent costs. If you feel happy to provide a written submission please send it to aaron.stephenson@aopa.com.au and editor@aopa.com.au . Specify if you’d like to remain anonymous.
Alternately please fill out the survey we have prepared, the link of which is below.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PX2BHVJ
The more information we get about these problems the better we will be able to fight the regulator for a real solution.
Thanks,
Mark Smith - Editor Australian Pilot
e: editor@aopa.com.au
Quote:Brian,
Maybe you can help by recounting your AFR experience in contrast to the old system?
Cheers,
Sandy
I've thrown my hands in the air and given up, there is no chance of saving or changing the system, no matter what we say or do.
BJ
Sandy
Just did my medical with new to me Dr. Homewood in Lara.
Said the system would not allow him to give me the two months extension but could not say why (I am in very good health). Also you have to pay the AVMED fee separately now so I'll ring them in the morning and attempt to pay over the phone.
They wouldn't accept any credit card detail by phone last time around until I got my federal MP involved.
May I quote you?
I understand your despair. Being retired I just take it as a civic duty to keep on pushing for reform. Unfortunately to maintain our freedoms, let alone improve them, sitting back and not making our opinions known is not an option.
Talk to Greg Hunt, at least ring or email his office.
Yep.
MTF...P2
