10-15-2022, 10:20 AM
Mr. Binskin, Chair Of CASA.
“ I would also urge those groups to put any baggage they may continue to carry behind them: in short, look forward and don’t dwell on the past.”
Don’t dwell on the past?
1. There shouldn’t be a time limit on matters of injustice (e.g. Glen Buckley) or walking away from the existential problems of General Aviation that are being faced every day in Australia due to the inability of CASA to make the necessary reforms. Neither any Minister nor CASA Board, since Gareth Evans created the independent regulator in 1988, has had the intestinal fortitude to cause the reforms that should be made in the National interest.
2. “The baggage,” as Mr. Binskin puts it, cannot be “put behind them” because the baggage is part of the Australia’s law. Our aviation regulations are stringent, incredibly complex and sometimes contradictory provisions which have been inappropriately migrated into the criminal code with strict liability for ease of prosecution.
We wish we could leave that ‘baggage’ behind. Imagine suffering a conviction for the ‘crime’ of a private pilot not entering a flight in their log book and then trying for a visa to travel overseas. No problem for USA pilots because there’s no sanction whatever for such omission. Why? because it’s of no importance and should never have been incorporated as a misdemeanour or crime in the first place. Just one example.
Medical reform, independent instructors and AMROBA engineering reforms should be immediate priorities being Board requirements of CASA for swift implementation. The Board then should recommend abolishment of CASA and aviation administration to be placed in a Department of Government and adoption of NZ or USA regulations. Would this Board do that? Not in a million years, so we wait for a Government to act. It might be a long wait but it’s the only viable and workable long term policy position.
“ I would also urge those groups to put any baggage they may continue to carry behind them: in short, look forward and don’t dwell on the past.”
Don’t dwell on the past?
1. There shouldn’t be a time limit on matters of injustice (e.g. Glen Buckley) or walking away from the existential problems of General Aviation that are being faced every day in Australia due to the inability of CASA to make the necessary reforms. Neither any Minister nor CASA Board, since Gareth Evans created the independent regulator in 1988, has had the intestinal fortitude to cause the reforms that should be made in the National interest.
2. “The baggage,” as Mr. Binskin puts it, cannot be “put behind them” because the baggage is part of the Australia’s law. Our aviation regulations are stringent, incredibly complex and sometimes contradictory provisions which have been inappropriately migrated into the criminal code with strict liability for ease of prosecution.
We wish we could leave that ‘baggage’ behind. Imagine suffering a conviction for the ‘crime’ of a private pilot not entering a flight in their log book and then trying for a visa to travel overseas. No problem for USA pilots because there’s no sanction whatever for such omission. Why? because it’s of no importance and should never have been incorporated as a misdemeanour or crime in the first place. Just one example.
Medical reform, independent instructors and AMROBA engineering reforms should be immediate priorities being Board requirements of CASA for swift implementation. The Board then should recommend abolishment of CASA and aviation administration to be placed in a Department of Government and adoption of NZ or USA regulations. Would this Board do that? Not in a million years, so we wait for a Government to act. It might be a long wait but it’s the only viable and workable long term policy position.