Right then. Steam – On.
I wonder what it would take to make the parliament and the travelling public realise the importance of the ATSB and the need to make it not only independent and impartial but unimpeachable? The world and it’s wife (including CASA) think CASA is the cornerstone of aviation safety. The simple answer is, that it is not. CASA is a regulator, not an investigator – unless you count persecution and prosecution as ‘accident investigation’.
When, as they do, ‘things’ go pear shaped, it is essential that industry fully and completely know why. It has been demonstrated, so many times, that the bang heard at the end of a long chain of events is only the end part of the cause. Often the real reason, the James Reason if you like , if known could have prevented the 'Bang'. So we now have the Mildura report; the airlines involved have undoubtedly ‘fixed’ things; or at very least buffed and patched their existing system to prevent a repeat.
ATSB is no doubt delighted to have the airline not only remedy the ‘problem’ but remove the responsibility for ‘the fix’ from ATSB and CASA and ASA and the BoM. It provides the perfect platform from which not only need nothing be done, but nothing more needs to be seen to be done. Great init.
It’s a bollocks, an expensive, useless, farcical, wasteful, cynical, government supported, publicly funded bollocks.
ATSB need to be independent, need to have competent leadership and need to serve the needs of the Australian travelling public. I, for one am heart sick of watching this illusion; this magic trick which deceives the gullible and robs the tax payer continue, unchecked.
Words for Greg Hood: It won’t be a stylish marriage, we can’t afford a carriage, but you’ll look sweet, up on the seat. of a bicycle built for two. Translation, we are out of patience, time and money the honeymoon period will be brief, after that it’s brutal reality; no holds barred.
Quote:P2 - "So back to the Hoody conundrum. Q) - Can Hoody drag the ATSB back to Reason? And/or has he even been tasked to do so?"
I wonder what it would take to make the parliament and the travelling public realise the importance of the ATSB and the need to make it not only independent and impartial but unimpeachable? The world and it’s wife (including CASA) think CASA is the cornerstone of aviation safety. The simple answer is, that it is not. CASA is a regulator, not an investigator – unless you count persecution and prosecution as ‘accident investigation’.
When, as they do, ‘things’ go pear shaped, it is essential that industry fully and completely know why. It has been demonstrated, so many times, that the bang heard at the end of a long chain of events is only the end part of the cause. Often the real reason, the James Reason if you like , if known could have prevented the 'Bang'. So we now have the Mildura report; the airlines involved have undoubtedly ‘fixed’ things; or at very least buffed and patched their existing system to prevent a repeat.
ATSB is no doubt delighted to have the airline not only remedy the ‘problem’ but remove the responsibility for ‘the fix’ from ATSB and CASA and ASA and the BoM. It provides the perfect platform from which not only need nothing be done, but nothing more needs to be seen to be done. Great init.
It’s a bollocks, an expensive, useless, farcical, wasteful, cynical, government supported, publicly funded bollocks.
ATSB need to be independent, need to have competent leadership and need to serve the needs of the Australian travelling public. I, for one am heart sick of watching this illusion; this magic trick which deceives the gullible and robs the tax payer continue, unchecked.
Words for Greg Hood: It won’t be a stylish marriage, we can’t afford a carriage, but you’ll look sweet, up on the seat. of a bicycle built for two. Translation, we are out of patience, time and money the honeymoon period will be brief, after that it’s brutal reality; no holds barred.