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Aunty Pru awards TimTam to LMH -   

Via the Yaffa:

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– Steve Hitchen

In a moment known as "the prestige", the illusionist steps to centre stage, doffs his hat and bows. The audience breaks into applause worthy of a king's retirement and whisper words of amazement amongst themselves. He had them totally fooled. They know it was all an illusion, but they still can't figure out he did it. Right now, we are going through a prestige moment for the Federal Government. With the changes to the Civil Aviation Act 1988 now law, the government is stepping into the spotlight to take the acclaim of having made good on their promise to do so. They have presented us with a momentous achievement that is nothing but a grand illusion: the changes to the Act will cause no changes in the aviation community. With the primacy of safety still in place, CASA retains legal ground for imposing anything they want and ignoring cost. Copying and pasting the requirement for them to consider cost from the Statement of Expectations to the Civil Aviation Act is paper change only. At the Regional Aviation Association of Australia (RAAA) convention this week, Shane Carmody said "This was recognised in the second reading speech in the House ‘Existing regulatory practice is already based on this approach’." So it has been spoken in the house and it has been highlighted by the regulator: nothing is going to change. What CASA was doing before they will continue to do. However, the government is still stepping up for the prestige. "Applause please! See how we made you think we were on your side when we really did nothing?" Master illusionists at work.

"..Is he trying to tell us that they found tin-foil hats in the wreckage?.."

In the same speech, Carmody aired an observation that people who criticise CASA seem to end up in serious accidents. He believes that attitude is the tether than binds the two things. Most of us didn't need to be told that attitude is often a causal factor in fatal accidents, but the bow he has drawn here is longer than the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Firstly, I don't know why he brought it up at all. The same effect could have been achieved from simply mentioning that pilot attitude is a problem. Secondly, linking it back to criticism of CASA and Facebook posts is a dynamite statement that is not easily understood. Is he trying to tell us that they found tin-foil hats in the wreckage? Is he trying to say that if you criticise CASA you increase your chances of having an accident? In fairness, Carmody did not state that most people who criticise the regulator have accidents and nor did he say that most people who had accidents were critics of CASA, but he did use the word "often", which means he believes these instances are regular. Personally, I believe that attitude is the biggest single threat to aviation safety in Australia, so in that respect, Shane Carmody is right. Press-on-itis is an attitude, beat-ups are the result of attitude, unauthorised aerobatics are the result of attitude, short-cut "quickie" endorsements are a result of attitude; there are so many. I think CASA would be better focusing on them rather than tying tragic accidents to criticism of themselves...

Read more at http://www.australianflying.com.au/the-l...qBYp7Lv.99

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Plus the Oz rejects Sandy comment in reply...

Carmody and the crashing critics (his report that we critics likely to crash). Oz comment pending

Mr. Carmody must be thanked, sounds like we are making some headway at last, those of us that haven’t crashed are pleased to be noted.  Likewise all those who have been regulated and fee gouged out of General Aviation (GA) will also be quite chuffed, if they haven’t crashed their cars on outback roads. 


CASA critic Senator Susan McDonald will be pleased that Mr. Carmody is critically aware Please don’t go flying Senator, you and Senator Rex Patrick are the only MPs who are standing up for GA, which is jobs and services, especially for regional Australia. 

Its thirty one years since the greatest aviation disaster in Australia’s history occurred, that of the creation of the independent Commonwealth corporate body CASA (and forerunner by name only) in 1988, a failed model of governance. 

As previous comment says it would be raining crashing aircraft and there’d be none left in a week or two if Mr. Carmody’s extraordinary outburst had a modicum of substance. 

CASA, the biggest failure, at huge expense, of public policy in Australia’s history. 31 years to rewrite the rules and still not finished, its simply not capable. . 

By an avalanche of ever changing rules of ever more complexity, commanding more and more fees, we have slowly lost lost hundreds of flying schools and charter services, thousands of jobs, businesses and services in General Aviation, many $billions lost and still losing daily. Why? To justify the rogue regulator’s existence and it’s out of control trajectory including it’s huge wages bill starting at the top about $600,000 p.a. 

Flying training is the bedrock of General Aviation (GA). The most recent tranche of flying training rules has finished off most of the few GA schools remaining. Our rules require permissions that might cost $50,000 in CASA fees for paperwork and negotiations that can take months or years. USA, get your instructor rating (no gradings as Oz), no extra permissions, and start teaching, better safety outcomes.

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Comment re the Carmody convulsion not accepted by the Oz 

This is a surprise, they’ve published plenty of other of my comments in a similar vein?? 

Hmm..no comment   

MTF...P2