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Some comments from Sandy & co in reply to the Dick article :

Andrew


Why quiet talks with the now ex-minister?

Surely things should be out in the open.

Enough secrecy in government.

The Other Andrew

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Douglas

CASA blatantly does not consider the economic costs of its regulations. If we had an interested Minister in the Chair for more than 5 minutes they would see that. Anyway, general aviation will probably be safer soon as it will cease to exist on its current trajectory. I kid you not.

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graham

Well done Dick, do not give up you never have.

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Alexander

@ Graham, also thanks to Andrew Burrell and several other reporters and editors from the the Australian for keeping this glaring failure of government in the public eye. The rot is exposed and that is the only hope to stop the loss of General Aviation jobs, businesses and services, not to mention home grown airline pilots. 

Having led a deputation thirteen years ago to Mr. Warren Truss, the then Minister and leader of the National Party, pleading for reform was like talking to a stone wall in the wilderness. Amazing lack of action or concern when considering that the regions and those Aussies living in remote areas are hardest hit with shrinking air services and loss of General Aviation.
 
Will McCormack act? On the past performance of the Nats, and as Leader Barnaby Joyce had plenty of time to get things moving, not without continued publicity and so far the Oz is the only media that’s appreciated the disaster area we know as General Aviation.

Alex in the Rises.

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Rick

Wow. Requiring CASA to seek the “highest level of safety in air navigation” alongside the need for “an efficient and sustainable Australian aviation industry” may be the first sensible idea I've heard from Dick Smith.

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Alexander

@Rick. Being in the business of General Aviation from the 60s I can assure you he has had that message about aviation consistently.

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Gary

@Rick It's getting close to 30 years now that Smith decided to "reform" our regs. Ask the hundreds of regulatory people who left when he started and now populate the worlds regulators to their delight, what they thought about the "reforms". The GA industry itself also has much to answer for.

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Laurie


The current political malais has MANY victims not least the public purse our way of life and Defence. An excellent insight on aviation!

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Alexander

“The spokeswoman noted that CASA already had a requirement that its regulatory approach must consider the economic and cost impacts on individuals, businesses and the community.”

This comment as reported from the new Minister in charge of aviation, Mr. McCormack, does not bode well. 

The facts are there for all to see; the ruination of General Aviation, not only because the Act needs to be rewritten with safety as an outcome of a healthy industry, but because the present model of governance some 30 years on has patently failed. 

Without a return in some form to Ministerial responsibility the present independent corporate structure cannot deliver rational or efficient management of civil aviation in Australia.

Virtually the only political input from us the public through our elected representatives is an occasional Ministerial Statement of Expectations. This farcical excuse for Ministerial control has proven to be totally useless and the regulator CASA continues to waste a perfectly good industry while feathering it’s own nest. A make work salary factory that has made rewriting the rules, 30 years and umpteen hundreds of $millions still not inished, an art form.

Inventing new permissions requiring enormous fees being one method to bolster it’s budget.

Alex in the Rises.

MTF...P2