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Pending.. : A miniscule announcement  

Now here's a turn up for the books, Steve Creedy was so keen to get the scoop that he skipped a cursory edit on this one, either that or he has Spanish heritage ... (Ps See headline)

Brindabella Airlinea founder Jeff Boyd to chair CASA  

• by: STEVE CREEDY
  
• From: The Australian
  
• May 13, 2015 12:00AM
  

Steve Creedy


Brindabella Airlines founder Jeff Boyd will be named today as the new chairman of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, as the air safety regulator moves to repair a fractured relationship with the aviation industry.  

The move to appoint Mr Boyd for a three-year term will be welcomed as another sign that Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss and the federal government are responding to industry anger about the way the authority had been pursuing regulatory reform and its relations with operators.

The Aviation Safety Regulatory Review report, chaired by industry veteran David Forsyth, last year called for sweeping reforms after criticising CASA for taking too hard a line and maintaining an adversarial approach to the industry, which had lost trust in the authority.

Mr Truss has since installed former Air Vice-Marshal Mark Skidmore as the director of aviation safety, revamped the board and last month delivered a letter of expectations to the authority calling on it to work more closely with industry.

Mr Boyd has served as deputy chairman since July last year and will succeed Allan Hawke, who headed the board from 2009.

Mr Truss paid tribute to Dr Hawke’s efforts and said he was looking forward to working with Mr Boyd and the new CASA board as they engaged with the industry to implement the government’s response to the Forsyth review.

Mr Boyd has more than three decades in regional aviation industry and founded Brindabella in 1994 before selling in 2011. The airline foundered under its new owners but was considered a success under Mr Boyd.

He was a vice-chairman of the Regional Aviation Association of Australia and is a ­qualified commercial pilot and a licensed aircraft maintenance engineer. He has also owned and operated a flight training school.

The government will also announce today the reappointment of Airservices Australia chairman Angus Houston for another term.

Addendum


Finally here is the presser from Farmer Truss:

Government announces key aviation safety appointments  


Media Release

WT143/2015
13 May 2015

Two key aviation safety appointments were announced today by the Australian Government. Sir Angus Houston will continue as Chair on the Board of Airservices Australia and Mr Jeff Boyd will be the new Chair of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority Board.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss said Sir Angus had been reappointed for two years.

“Sir Angus's performance as Airservices Chair over the last three years and his role in leading the Joint Agency Coordination Centre in the search for MH 370 demonstrate the attributes that will stand the organisation in good stead for the next two years,” Mr Truss said.

“This is particularly important as the Board works towards the harmonisation of the civil and military air traffic management systems in Australia, in conjunction with the Department of Defence.

“Mr Jeff Boyd has been appointed chair of the CASA board for a three-year term.

“Mr Boyd has been Deputy Chair of the Board since July 2014 and brings to the position a wealth of aviation experience in both management and operational roles.

“I look forward to working with Jeff and the new CASA Board as they engage with the Australian aviation industry to implement the Government's response to the Aviation Safety Regulation Review Report.

“Mr Boyd will succeed Dr Alan Hawke AC, who has served on the CASA Board since July 2009.

“I wish to take this opportunity to publicly thank Dr Hawke for his services as chair of the CASA board during a period that has seen strong growth in the international and domestic aviation sectors.

“These appointments will offer both boards proactive leadership in setting, steering and overseeing the strategic direction of each agency to meet current and emerging challenges in aviation safety.”

For more information:
Airservices Australia—www.airservicesaustralia.com;
CASA—www.casa.gov.au.

And for once AA & Hitchen are catching up...

 From AA - Jeff Boyd appointed new CASA chairman

& from Oz Flying:

 


Aviation identify, RAAA director and former airline owner Jeff Boyd. (RAAA)


Jeff Boyd to lead the CASA Board
13 May 2015

Jeff Boyd has been appointed as the Chair of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority board for the next three years.

In announcing the appointment today, Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss said CASA stood to gain from Boyd's aviation credentials.

“Mr Boyd has been Deputy Chair of the Board since July 2014 and brings to the position a wealth of aviation experience in both management and operational roles," he said.

“I look forward to working with Jeff and the new CASA Board as they engage with the Australian aviation industry to implement the Government's response to the Aviation Safety Regulation Review Report.

“Mr Boyd will succeed Dr Alan Hawke AC, who has served on the CASA Board since July 2009.

“I wish to take this opportunity to publicly thank Dr Hawke for his services as chair of the CASA board during a period that has seen strong growth in the international and domestic aviation sectors."

The minister also announced that Air Vice Marshall Sir Angus Houston had been appointed as Chair of Airservices Australia for a further two years.

On a different story - & somewhat belatedly - I intercepted the following article from local rag the Naracoorte Herald which made me smile... :

Senator airs aviation reforms

May 6, 2015, 11:30 p.m.

MEMBERS of the Naracoorte Aero Club discussed reforms in the aviation sector with SA Liberal Senator David Fawcett during his visit to the SE last week.
SA Liberal Senator David Fawcett (centre) with Naracoorte Aero Club members John McTernan (left), Allan Sears, Anthony Johnson, David McTernan and Gary Burgess on Friday night.

MEMBERS of the Naracoorte Aero Club discussed reforms in the aviation sector with SA Liberal Senator David Fawcett during his visit to the SE last week.

Significant reforms are being implemented in the industry following the Federal Government's sweeping Aviation Safety Regulation Review, chaired by industry veteran David Forsyth.

The review's recommendations reflected calls from smaller aviation operators to make changes at the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, which had been widely criticised for its hard-line approach to enforcement of industry standards.

Senator Fawcett said regulatory reforms being carried out by CASA were the major talking point during his discussions with aero club members. He said the compliance requirements, which were set with airlines and larger training organisations in mind, were burdening smaller clubs like Naracoorte.

"Where there's a one-instructor flying club like Naracoorte, CASA's requirements can be very distracting and can prevent club members from doing more important things,"
Senator Fawcett said. Club members also raised concerns about the consistency of advice being provided by CASA.

"CASA has changed their requirements, but haven't actually issued new templates and that is creating a lot of work and a lot of expense," he said. "While aero club members here in Naracoorte are yet to see a great deal of change since the Forsyth Review has handed down, at a national level there are now some excellent new people at CASA who bring with them experience in aviation and a real commitment to working with the industry."

CASA has also been given a new directive by Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss that it must work with the industry and consider the commercial impacts of its decisions.

Senator Fawcett said members of the Naracoorte club would start seeing significant changes in the coming months.

"I'm here partly to let them know what's occurring, but also because it's important for me to get first-hand feedback from on a small regional aero club such as this," he said.

"Historically in Australia, flight training in the regions has been where a lot of pilots got their start, going on to work for the big airlines or in charter work. "It's a very important part of our aviation infrastructure and we need to keep it going." Aero club president Gary Burgess said the discussions with Federal Government representatives like Senator Fawcett were very productive. He said local members were hopeful the benefits of the changes at CASA would start "trickling down" to smaller clubs like Naracoorte.

"At the moment we seem to have a regulatory authority that's working very hard to make sure Qantas is alright, but then all of the little guys have got to comply to the same level of compliance that Qantas does," Mr Burgess said. "If you've got a big organisation like Qantas, you'll have dedicated employees who look after regulation.

"Here we've got to fly, teach people to fly, look after general aviation in the regional areas and then we're expected in our down time to comply with all the regulations. It is basically a full-time job."

The Naracoorte club boasts 60 members and is part of the wider training organisation, the Wimmera Aero Club, which stretches from Horsham to Mount Gambier and has 110 members.

"The Royal Flying Doctor Service is here almost on a daily basis and the Toll freight plane is here every day with bank deliveries.

"We're all committed to flight safety - no one ignores that for a second," Mr Burgess said.
"But we need to be able to operate in a commercial environment, because the more we stifle the commercial environment, the harder it is to be a part of the aviation industry."

Following his visit to the aero club, Senator Fawcett was guest speaker at the annual meeting of Naracoorte Liberal Party branch at Settlers Cafe.

At the meeting, Naracoorte Lucindale councillor Tom Dennis was re-elected unopposed as branch president for a third term.

Derek James was re-elected as vice-president, as was secretary Trace Burgess and treasurer Sonia Winter.

Hmm...Skates old son.. ..tick..tick..tick ???

MTF...P2...