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This week from Hitch's weekly wrap...

The Last Minute Hitch: 30 September 2016
30 September 2016

Even in his twilight weeks as Director of Aviation Safety, Mark Skidmore has stayed on message, reiterating his belief that industry reform is possible only through genuine co-operation between CASA and the aviation community. As he says in his final CASA Briefing Newsletter, there is a lot of expertise in the aviation community and CASA is not the oracle in all things safety regardless of their name. It's pretty clear the industry can't brook CASA stumbling along Part 61-fashion anymore, but if we don't share with them the expertise that Skidmore has rightly pointed out we have, we may really be condemning both CASA and ourselves to repeat mistakes of the past...

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

P2 - Not sure Gobbles but I think this is where you intended to post...  

Skiddies intent - pure?

I'm actually reasonably confident that Mr Skidmore's intentions when he took on the DAS poison chalice were somewhat pure and genuine. The bloke is known to be a reasonable sort of chap, unlike his sociopathic predecessor, however the black hats reign supreme.

Mark, you can't turn back 3 decades of malfeasance, bullying and pineappling in 20 months, probably not even in 20 years with the amount of destruction that has and still is being inflicted on our industry. When you finally acknowledge, even understand that a large part of the root cause has been, and still is allowed to flourish for decades and still remains firmly entrenched and empowered to unleash the same level of bullshit on us you will get where we are coming from.

And yes, this shit gets personal, very personal - businesses, families, careers, finances, health and futures have been destroyed out of spite, vindictiveness, ego and apathy towards fairness and respect.

Skiddies replacement should he/she have genuine good intent and actually be allowed to flex their testicles, could earn some quick wins and grasp some low hanging fruit for starters. Everyone knows where to begin, how to really restructure/clean up CAsA - who to axe, what regs and laws to repeal, white private Parts to scrap or at least 'get them right'.

A fare playing field Brother Skates, that's all we've ever asked for....

Tick tock mate