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FF deckchair shuffle begins; plus GlenB embuggerance update - 

EWH catching up, via the Yaffa:

 

13 October 2021

Executive Manager Stakeholder Engagement Rob Walker is set to take over the Regulatory Oversight Division in a new CASA structure that has also seen Group Executive Manager – Aviation Graeme Crawford leave the regulator after his position was abolished.

Walker has run the Stakeholder Engagement division since March 2016 and has been instrumental in reforming consultation processes and establishing the Aviation Safety Advisory Panel and Technical Working Groups.

The new structure has been put in place by Director of Aviation and CEO Pip Spence in order to flatten the management structure and focus all divisions of CASA on aviation safety.

All executive managers will now report directly to Spence with the Regulatory Oversight Division (ROD), National Operations and Standards, and Group Transformations and Safety Systems joining the CASA executive committee.

In a statement handed to all CASA staff on 5 October, Spence explained the reasoning behind the changes.

"An 'aviation group' with its own executive team implies a split from the rest of the organisation and doesn't properly acknowledge that was are all here to work together in the interest of aviation safety.

"At times, this has impeded organisational efficiency and made it more difficult for our whole executive to achieve alignment on important issues."

Spence acknowledged the work of Crawford pointing our his contribution to regulatory reform and his tenure as Acting Director of Aviation Safety following the retirement of Shane Carmody late last year.

Sources within CASA have said that previous ROD Executive Manager Craig Martin is due to leave the regulator by the end of October.

 
Comments in reply, via FB:

Sandy Reith

Quote from article:- “The new structure has been put in place by Director of Aviation and CEO Pip Spence in order to flatten the management structure and focus all divisions of CASA on aviation safety.”
There you have it, exactly as is the charter of CASA, that safety has primacy over every consideration.
As Dick Smith once said then all airliners should be fitted with passenger ejector seats. Until the Minister changes the riding instructions you cannot expect CASA, with this inappropriate and unrealistic foremost directive, to make the sort of reforms that can stop the decline of GA in Australia.

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David Ian Grant

From what I hear just replacing one Sociopath with another.?

Via the AP email chains:

13/10/21

Dear Mr Jonathan Aleck, CASA Executive Manager of Legal, International and Regulatory Affairs,

I am writing to you as the person that I consider accountable and responsible for my entire matter, and the related damage caused.

You were the sole decision maker, and at any time prior to issuing the notification in October 2018 and at any time after, you could have finalised this entire matter in a single day. In fact, you could have completely avoided it had you decided to.

That is the truth, and I will attend to that shortly in correspondence to the CASA Board, CEO and Deputy PM.

The purpose of this correspondence, however, is to call on you to act with integrity and in a truthful manner. If you choose not to do so, I will follow up with more extensive correspondence.

You have misled the Commonwealth Ombudsman to be of the view that CASA only found out about my businesses structure just prior to October 2018.

You know that to be incorrect, and I call on you to clarify this substantial misunderstanding. It is in fact central to this entire matter.

I am exhausted by your conduct. It has cost me my two businesses, my involvement in an industry I loved, cost me millions of dollars, and left me bankrupt. I have negatively impacted on so many people dependant on me. You have destroyed me financially, mentally, and having been released yesterday from hospital after an issue with my heart, physically.

Your “body of work” is complete, I fear it brings you some grotesque satisfaction.

The CASA position presented to the Ombudsman is preposterous. As you are fully aware.

• I had been operating in that structure for almost a decade prior, since our involvement with AV8 in Darwin. With full CASA knowledge and approval.
  
• Ten CASA personnel were involved over a two-year period in the total redesign of my business, and CASA personnel assessed and approved over 600 requirements. Those same CASA personnel have offered to come forward and tell the truth on this matter. I have extended that offer to the Commonwealth Ombudsman
  
• CASA revalidated the entire operation in April 2017 when it approved the business as a Part 141/142 (one of the first in Australia), eighteen months before CASA “found out”, about the structure.
  
• Routinely audited the entire operation with several CASA personnel over a one-week period in November 2017 (almost a year before you claim you “found out about” my structure.
  
• CASA approved our entire Operations Manual Suite referred to as the Exposition and approved bases via formal processes etc etc.
  
• CASA personnel regularly attended Group Operational Meetings and Safety meetings on numerous occasions, and CASA provided training to us in Group meetings.
  

I need not continue. My hope is that I will not need to. It should not be necessary. You have already diverted far too many public CASA resources to covering up this matter, and engineering your desired outcome.
I personally have expended everything, and I mean everything in trying to expose this matter.
Please note that I have not included anyone from CASA in this correspondence. I will leave it to your discretion if you deem it necessary to share this correspondence with the CASA CEO or Board.

My expectation is that you will reach out directly to the Commonwealth Ombudsman via written notification and clarify the truth regrading CASAs knowledge and involvement in my business years before you claim you first became aware. I ask that I be included in that correspondence.

If you in your role, maintain that it is CASAs position that you only became aware of the structure of my business just prior to October of 2018. I will write to the CASA CEO Board and CEO seeking confirmation that will be  the official CASA position.

My sincere hope is that the new CEO and Board Chair do not need to become involved in this matter, although it seems increasingly unlikely. This matter is entirely in your hands, I urge you to act appropriate to your role.

Glen Buckley

Along with the above from GlenB, the following video segments IMO (along with the 1000s of notified non-compliant differences to ICAO; the hugely complex, totally unworkable, draconian and ICAO non-compliant CASR regulatory suite blah..blah..blah -  ) puts a hat on why it is simply unacceptable for the architect of so many industry embuggerances to be ensconced inside of Aviation House while still actively undermining any real attempts at reforming the completely recalcitrant, 'law unto itself' Australian civil aviation administration...

And who could forget Dr A's extraordinary statement given in the PelAir inquiry, where he gave evidence that the main reason for the ATSB/CASA MOU sharing of investigative documentation etc. was for the main benefit of CASA not the ATSB..

IMO it is definitely way past time that Dr A collected his remaining marbles and exited the building...

MTF...P2 

Ps Karma's a BITCH best respected...