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09-13-2016, 10:39 AM
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(09-12-2016, 04:31 PM)Peetwo Wrote: With a shovel full of shit and a tail wind. - MKII
(09-10-2016, 08:34 PM)Gobbledock Wrote: A world gone mad;
"How many new laws are passed each year?
In a Dec. 27, 2011, press release, the National Conference of State Legislatures said U.S. states and territories passed more than 40,000 bills and resolutions into law in 2011. Yet, the release also said, laws do not always take effect at the start of a year."
How many new ones get passed in Australia each year? Who knows, but we get more every year, not less, that's for certain. We are a micro-managed society that is watched and monitored by increasingly paranoid governments. It is evident in the way we are governed, regulated, watched and observed, controlled, and stripped of rights and power.
Ho hum, I guess it doesn't effect the Politicians as they are 'above the law', you won't see Goldman Sachs Turnbull booked by a bus shelter copper doing 1 km per hour over the limit. In fact Malcolm palms off a lot of his coin to an international island so he doesn't have to comply with Australian tax laws. And what about the laws on superannuation? I can't get mine until probably 97 years of age at this rate. But I still recall Senator Bill O'Chee at age early 30 retiring after just a handful of years in Politics and taking a cool $1m dollars with him to spend. So overall the laws are fucked unless you are one of those who are exempt from complying with them.
That's my Saturday night ramble, I better power down the internet and check the night sky for Drones hey?
Tick tock the new age French Revolution
Speaking of the huge amount of largely unnecessary laws don't forget about the disallowable instruments dealing with the regulations, directions and exemptions to those laws... 
With a long hiatus between the 44th & 45th Parliament CASA was obviously quite impatient to get back to the business of embuggerance and ruling by exemption. Here is the nearly 60 odd disallowable instruments tabled in just three sitting days of Parliament... 
Quote:Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - professional development program and approved course of professional development for flight examiners CASA EX134/16 F2016L01362
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Inspection, Test and Retirement AD/GAS/1 Amdt 11 F2016L01364
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Part 66 Manual of Standards Amendment Instrument 2016 (No. 5) F2016L01357
Civil Aviation Act 1988âCivil Aviation Order 100.5âDetermination - non-application of part of CAO 100.5âCASA 47/16âF2016L00774
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 and Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Civil Aviation Order 48.1 Amendment Instrument 2016 (No. 1) F2016L01161
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 and Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Civil Aviation Order 48.1 Amendment Instrument 2016 (No. 2) F2016L01224
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 Direction - number of cabin attendants (Capiteq Pty Limited) CASA 50/16 F2016L00852
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 Direction - number of cabin attendants (JetGo Australia Holdings) CASA 89/16 F2016L01291
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 Direction - number of cabin attendants (Jetstar Airways) CASA 52/16 F2016L00833
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 Direction - number of cabin attendants (National Jet Express)âCASA 51/16 F2016L00832
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 Direction - number of cabin attendants (National Jet Systems) CASA 75/16 F2016L01215
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 Direction - number of cabin attendants (Sunstate Airlines) CASA 53/16 F2016L00834
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 Direction - number of cabin attendants (Tiger Airways) CASA 60/16 F2016L01054
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 Direction - number of cabin attendants (Virgin Australia Airlines) CASA 57/16 F2016L01110
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 Direction - number of cabin attendants (Virgin Australia International Airlines) CASA 56/16 F2016L01103
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 Direction - number of cabin attendants for Airbus A320 and Fokker F100 aircraft (Virgin Australia Regional Airlines) CASA 61/16 F2016L01047
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 Direction - number of cabin attendants in Boeing 737-800 series aircraft (Qantas Airways Limited) CASA 80/16 F2016L01249
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 Instructions - GNSS primary means navigation (A330, B737NG and E190 aircraft) CASA 81/16 F2016L01250
Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 Instructions - GNSS primary means navigation (B737NG and B777-300ER aircraft) CASA 82/16 F2016L01251
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Conditions and direction concerning certain aircraft fitted with engines manufactured by Jabiru Aircraft Pty Ltd CASA 65/16 F2016L01112
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Control Column Handgrip Fitting AD/BEA 121/27 Amdt 3 F2016L01270
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - aerial application proficiency check and operator proficiency check (head of flight operations) - aeroplanes CASA EX105/16 F2016L01111
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - aeronautical experience for an NVIS rating or endorsement CASA EX77/16 F2016L00859
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - carriage of Mode S transponder equipment (Rawlings) CASA EX127/16 F2016L01295
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - CASR Part 61 aeronautical knowledge examinations and completion period CASA EX86/16 F2016L00981
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - CASR Part 61 aircraft flight reviews CASA EX97/16 F2016L01045
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - Cessna 100 series aircraft operated in the private category - extension of Supplemental Inspection Document requirements CASA EX96/16 F2016L01051
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - Cessna Supplemental Inspection Document requirements CASA EX98/16 F2016L01053
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - Civil Aviation Order 48.1 Instrument 2013 - aerial application operations (in aeroplanes) CASA EX92/16 F2016L01044
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - defect beyond designated rectification interval CASA EX100/16 F2016L01113
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - design of modification or repair for an aircraft that is to be operated under a special flight permit CASA EX99/16 F2016L01099
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - dropping of articles from an aircraftâ CASA EX72/16 F2016L00815
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - flight data recording CASA EX117/16 F2016L01271
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - flight examiner rating for holders of CAO 82.0 check pilot approvals CASA EX106/16 F2016L01114
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - from having training and checking organisation CASA EX115/16 F2016L01252
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - instrument proficiency checks for aircraft pilot type ratings CASA EX93/16 F2016L01046
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - materials flammability airworthiness standards for Medical Isolation Transportation Devices CASA EX109/16 F2016L01166
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - Mode S transponder equipment CASA EX125/16 F2016L01281
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - standards for GNSS navigation equipment (National Jet Express Pty Ltd) CASA EX82/16 F2016L00872
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - Surveillance Australia Pty Ltd operations into Lord Howe Island CASA EX79/16 F2016L00835
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - take-off with traces of frost CASA EX101/16 F2016L01075
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - to members of Australian Warbirds Association Ltd (AWAL), Aviation Reference Number 568691 CASA EX73/16 F2016L00841
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Controllers Certificate requirements CASA EX81/16 F2016L00961
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Exemption - use of radiocommunication systems during parachute operations (Australian Parachute Federation) CASA EX116/16 F2016L01274
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Part 21 Manual of Standards Instrument 2016 F2016L00915
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Part 45 Manual of Standards Instrument 2016 F2016L00850
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Part 61 Manual of Standards Amendment Instrument 2016 (No. 1) F2016L00831
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Repeal - exemption - from standard landing minima - Boeing 737 fail-passive aircraft - Virgin Australia Airlines Pty Ltd CASA EX123/16 F2016L01278
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Repeal - exemption - from standard take-off and landing minima - Japan Airlines CASA EX128/16 F2016L01302
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Repeal of Airworthiness Directives CASA ADCX 011/16 F2016L00996
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Repeal of Airworthiness Directives CASA ADCX 012/16 F2016L01002
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Repeal of Airworthiness Directives CASA ADCX 013/16 F2016L01140
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Repeal of Airworthiness Directives CASA ADCX 014/16 F2016L01172
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Repeal of Airworthiness Directives CASA ADCX 015/16 F2016L01214
Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 Repeal of Airworthiness Directives CASA ADCX 016/16 F2016L01282
Going down through that list, I don't think you could get a better example of just how out of control our supposedly reforming, Big R, regulator is; while systematically strangling the industry out of existence through overwhelming Red Tape...
IMO Senators disallow the whole lot and tell them to go away and get real - FDS! 
MTF...P2 
(09-13-2016, 07:25 AM)kharon Wrote: Even then; this benighted industry can’t hit the barn door of change. I read much about ‘changing’ the Act, I have no quarrel with the proposal, even less with some of the suggested ‘philosophy’. Those who believe the Act is the key to industry prosperity and well being are articulate, intelligent, sensible folk; experienced and wise in the workings of ‘departments’. From an academic stance the proposal has merit, weight and a very firm grounding in law, rather than policy.. While changes to the Act provide a legal ‘foothold’ for change; it does not however ‘police’ the demanded changes, nor the spirit and intent of change. Like water finds its way around a rock, so will those who will resist any and all change find a way to circumvent good intentions.
There is only one thing going to change CASA and that is CASA. The deeply entrenched problems lay in one area only – in the attitude, not the Act. The tales of piss poor attitude, incompetence, arrogance, personal animosity and payback are manifold and legendary. These tales do not stem from the Act; they originate from people, those employed by industry funded CASA. Apart from being used as top cover for the gross indecencies; the Act had SFA to do with the Chambers report. Chambers, those above him and some of those beneath happily arranged the embuggerance of James; Pel-Air sat back and let it happen. Quadrio, another tale of venality and embuggerance. Airtex, Barrier, Polar, Canley Vale, the recent excesses displayed by various regional departments; you know the ones, those which no one dare speak of for fear of retribution and audit. The Act had sod all to do with these anathemas; people did.
Until there is a serious top level change of ‘attitude’ demonstrated and clearly articulated by a Senate sponsored ICC investigation into the behaviour of CASA employees and something done about the results, nothing will change. You can lobby, pressure, consult, collaborate, waste wind, time and words until you are blue in the face. Nothing is going to change until CASA changes. That can only happen through an internal operation. That involves selecting the ‘right’ DAS.
The DAS has the clout to make these internal changes. The DAS can, without any assistance, conduct internal investigations and make a case for dismissal. The CASA is riddled with bullies, cowards and incompetents. Fire half a dozen or six of the worst (list willingly supplied) and the rest will fall into line. The ‘attitude’ of those remaining will never change, but they will have to sit quietly so long as they are out gunned by newly appointed ‘white hats’; or leave. Inshallah.
Forget about changing the Act, that’s a nice to have; set aside regulatory reform that’s an easy fix. Start the change by demanding that the new DAS has the courage and integrity to tame the rampant beast first. Bring the CASA operatives to heel, stop the blatant lying and deceptions, hire some competent airmen to work with operators, make compliance a joint effort not a battle to the death. Change CASA and watch industry rapidly find it’s true potential. It is that simple; we have a simple minister who would love to get the industry off his back; so, present easy solutions. CASA have created this bloody shambles; the distrust and the disdain. Not the minister, not the local MP, certainly not the industry. But of course industry simply dare not speak out, because if they do and nothing gets ‘fixed’ the cost of retribution will be horrendous. Why? Well children that’s because CASA keeps getting away with it, that’s why and ‘we’ let ‘em. They did invent, promote and foster the ‘fear of loss’ syndrome as well as the ‘mystique’. Hellish position – damned if you do; damned if you don’t.
Change the bloody Act, change the flaming regulations, change to colour of the bog paper; if it pleases: but until CASA is changed; nothing will change, not for the better anyway. Now all aboard the merry go round.
Selah.
