Grand mama’s knitting.
Many (many) years and moons ago, on a visit to ‘Grands’ place I was sat by the fireplace, toasty warm, listening to the familiar sounds of the ‘last stables’ and the fire crackling. One of the recent litter of kittens bounced in, looking for fun, or hunting practice, then froze; Grand’s knitting basket was open and a large part of what should be warm sweater was quietly minding it’s business – irresistible. Long story short, eventually the ‘piece’ was slain and a loose end was dragged away as a trophy of the ‘kill’. Like magic, the labour of many hours of disappeared as the whole thing unravelled before my eyes.
CASA’ s pathetic attempts to stuff the remnants back into the bag, hide the kitten and avoid ‘trouble’ remind me of that evening. Their knitting is becoming unravelled at an alarming pace.
One of the core reasons, 30 years ago, for regulatory reform was to remove the need for exemptions; for obvious reasons. Not so obvious was the ‘intent’ to remove any call of favouritism or unfair advantage, with the attendant aroma of possible corruption. So we spent the dough and set to work.
The farcical Part 61 and the unmentionable 145 (amongst others) are proving to be the ‘loose end’. ‘Gran’ only had one option; start again, but she at least was lucky, the wool was intact, ravelled but whole, only needing to be rolled up again (I got that job). The fabric CASA has been working with has not been so fortunate; it’s ‘ducked’. The knock-on effects, the endless, pointless contradiction, confusion, misuse, abuse of spirit, twisted intent and adventures at the extremes of law have turned the loop holes into hangman’s nooses, waiting to trap the unwary – on both sides.
We need a ‘working’ rule set, now would be good. What we have is a dreadful hodge-podge which, until the ‘new rules’ started turning up, allowed industry to limp along, mostly in compliance; not any longer. We have adopted rule sets and ‘philosophy’ from grown up aviation nations before; why can’t we do that again? Even if we must have an ‘unique’ Australian rule set, there is little impediment and much to be gained by adopting the FAR or NZ suite as a temporary measure until another 30 years and 300 million have passed and someone, who knows what they are about, rewrites the Australian version within the constitution and tenets of good faith. Hells bells, the cost of generating the last raft of ‘exemptions’ would have paid for the Kiwi set; and they thrashed us at cricket. Sign of the times I reckon.
Not quite a ramble, best pull up before I starts to ‘wander’.
Toot toot....
Many (many) years and moons ago, on a visit to ‘Grands’ place I was sat by the fireplace, toasty warm, listening to the familiar sounds of the ‘last stables’ and the fire crackling. One of the recent litter of kittens bounced in, looking for fun, or hunting practice, then froze; Grand’s knitting basket was open and a large part of what should be warm sweater was quietly minding it’s business – irresistible. Long story short, eventually the ‘piece’ was slain and a loose end was dragged away as a trophy of the ‘kill’. Like magic, the labour of many hours of disappeared as the whole thing unravelled before my eyes.
CASA’ s pathetic attempts to stuff the remnants back into the bag, hide the kitten and avoid ‘trouble’ remind me of that evening. Their knitting is becoming unravelled at an alarming pace.
One of the core reasons, 30 years ago, for regulatory reform was to remove the need for exemptions; for obvious reasons. Not so obvious was the ‘intent’ to remove any call of favouritism or unfair advantage, with the attendant aroma of possible corruption. So we spent the dough and set to work.
The farcical Part 61 and the unmentionable 145 (amongst others) are proving to be the ‘loose end’. ‘Gran’ only had one option; start again, but she at least was lucky, the wool was intact, ravelled but whole, only needing to be rolled up again (I got that job). The fabric CASA has been working with has not been so fortunate; it’s ‘ducked’. The knock-on effects, the endless, pointless contradiction, confusion, misuse, abuse of spirit, twisted intent and adventures at the extremes of law have turned the loop holes into hangman’s nooses, waiting to trap the unwary – on both sides.
We need a ‘working’ rule set, now would be good. What we have is a dreadful hodge-podge which, until the ‘new rules’ started turning up, allowed industry to limp along, mostly in compliance; not any longer. We have adopted rule sets and ‘philosophy’ from grown up aviation nations before; why can’t we do that again? Even if we must have an ‘unique’ Australian rule set, there is little impediment and much to be gained by adopting the FAR or NZ suite as a temporary measure until another 30 years and 300 million have passed and someone, who knows what they are about, rewrites the Australian version within the constitution and tenets of good faith. Hells bells, the cost of generating the last raft of ‘exemptions’ would have paid for the Kiwi set; and they thrashed us at cricket. Sign of the times I reckon.
Not quite a ramble, best pull up before I starts to ‘wander’.
Toot toot....