Couldn't resist posting these comments from the 'innocent by-stander' e-mail loop. Passed along by one of of the not so innocent, worth a read and a choc frog.
Quote:The following from somebody not implicated in this loop and the Medical data given without any identification of included recipients. May I say this person has a firm working knowledge of the CAsA theme. He fails to say what I may have by way of suggestion, in that the facts and figures and graphs should be read in conjunction with corresponding graphs of AVGAS sales, aircraft brokerage, RA-Aus figures and of course the telling Engineers data of loss of business through lack of aircraft and owners in their economic catchment and burdensome regulatory paperwork.
His input is obvious and telling... follows,
Quote:“But hardly surprising.
The job of Avmed is to find something - anything - to create more intrusive busy-work, to save the world and demonstrate superior knowledge and expertise than mere private practitioners and specialists. Think how distressing it would be for Avmed if Avmed had to face the reality that for all its efforts, the end result is a certificate holder with the same probabilities of sudden incapacity as the general population.
And now we have the Orwellian spectacle of Mr Skidmore demanding "data" to show the current system isn't working. Setting aside that he mouths the rhetoric of evidence-based and risk-based regulation, which would suggest CASA is supposed to come up with the evidence and do the objective risk/cost evaluation to justify Avmed's interventionist zeal, he puts the industry to proof of a negative: The industry must prove that most of Avmed's recent adventurism does not contribute to safety, but to do that the industry would have to have control over Avmed.
Makes me sick, but I wouldn't tell Avmed that...”