20/20 vision in the rear view mirror.
You can see now why MM raced in to defend CASA and throw Carmody a life belt when CASA were on stage and NX ventured too close the vexed subject of where CASA see their responsibilities and obligations ending. Pans-Ops and ‘regulatory advice’. Fawcett is onto the game, has been from the ‘off’.
Sen. Fawcett: “So, I am really just looking for an assurance that you will now go back to those discussions that we have had over the last six years or so to look not just at the PANS-OPS and the noise but also at the areas the pilots may need for forced landing areas.”
This ongoing interest is sadly too little and to late now; the developers and owners have stolen the march. All we have left is the pug marks showing the trail to developers heaven. CASA act to the absolute minimum requirement; aircraft operations conducted at reduced weight may satisfy the Pans-Ops; nothing else needs to be addressed. This stance allows the masterplans to be approved and the rest becomes history. All legal, neat and tidy with no one to blame.
Sen. Fawcett: “We discussed probably 18 months ago at estimates Archerfield and the role that CASA played there in signing off on the shortened runways but did not take into account their own requirements and operators in terms of factoring for grass strips, wet strips, climb-out gradients with engine failures et cetera at the gross weight that the operators are currently able to operate at. So, they correctly said that it can be safe but that would require the operators to operate it with lower payloads and hence it would not be as commercially viable.
Ergo, if you can’t use the airfield, leave and go somewhere else as the local residents and Council cheer; win-win for them; in come the bulldozers out go the aircraft. Hell if you had any sense at all you’d sell off the aircraft while you can and invest in the airport development; guaranteed, no stress return.
Mr Mrdak : “We have certainly for some time been looking closely, and I think CASA's engagement in the process is much improved over the last couple of years over what it has been in the past.”
Strange statement, considering we have only had the Slick Git, as DAS over the last while; more interested in PR than the safety of the public in the new shopping malls and the aircraft which could potentially bang into them. Gives a whole new concept to ‘BBQ’s-R-Us, don’t it though.
Well, Essendon could have gone that way; fireball and a truckload of crispy critters to cart away. The department knows that the runways are being squeezed to danger point; do they give a monkey’s. Do they hell; all nice and legal and tidy. They even get to tip CASA under the bus. Jolly good, unless you happen to be shopping for a new play station with the grand kids.
Fawcett is a great player and he understands the game; but, alas time and guile have trumped his ace. The shops are there to stay, the airfields are shrinking and the risks increase daily. With great respect and admiration, Fawcett played a good innings but the game is lost, while the crowd watch the King Air burn.
Toot toot.
You can see now why MM raced in to defend CASA and throw Carmody a life belt when CASA were on stage and NX ventured too close the vexed subject of where CASA see their responsibilities and obligations ending. Pans-Ops and ‘regulatory advice’. Fawcett is onto the game, has been from the ‘off’.
Sen. Fawcett: “So, I am really just looking for an assurance that you will now go back to those discussions that we have had over the last six years or so to look not just at the PANS-OPS and the noise but also at the areas the pilots may need for forced landing areas.”
This ongoing interest is sadly too little and to late now; the developers and owners have stolen the march. All we have left is the pug marks showing the trail to developers heaven. CASA act to the absolute minimum requirement; aircraft operations conducted at reduced weight may satisfy the Pans-Ops; nothing else needs to be addressed. This stance allows the masterplans to be approved and the rest becomes history. All legal, neat and tidy with no one to blame.
Sen. Fawcett: “We discussed probably 18 months ago at estimates Archerfield and the role that CASA played there in signing off on the shortened runways but did not take into account their own requirements and operators in terms of factoring for grass strips, wet strips, climb-out gradients with engine failures et cetera at the gross weight that the operators are currently able to operate at. So, they correctly said that it can be safe but that would require the operators to operate it with lower payloads and hence it would not be as commercially viable.
Ergo, if you can’t use the airfield, leave and go somewhere else as the local residents and Council cheer; win-win for them; in come the bulldozers out go the aircraft. Hell if you had any sense at all you’d sell off the aircraft while you can and invest in the airport development; guaranteed, no stress return.
Mr Mrdak : “We have certainly for some time been looking closely, and I think CASA's engagement in the process is much improved over the last couple of years over what it has been in the past.”
Strange statement, considering we have only had the Slick Git, as DAS over the last while; more interested in PR than the safety of the public in the new shopping malls and the aircraft which could potentially bang into them. Gives a whole new concept to ‘BBQ’s-R-Us, don’t it though.
Well, Essendon could have gone that way; fireball and a truckload of crispy critters to cart away. The department knows that the runways are being squeezed to danger point; do they give a monkey’s. Do they hell; all nice and legal and tidy. They even get to tip CASA under the bus. Jolly good, unless you happen to be shopping for a new play station with the grand kids.
Fawcett is a great player and he understands the game; but, alas time and guile have trumped his ace. The shops are there to stay, the airfields are shrinking and the risks increase daily. With great respect and admiration, Fawcett played a good innings but the game is lost, while the crowd watch the King Air burn.
Toot toot.