06-13-2016, 04:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-23-2016, 06:41 PM by thorn bird.)
General aviation is perceived by the uninformed somewhat like those unkempt, unwashed individuals you see from time to time parked on the pavement outside a store on Main Street. They may have an old supermarket trolley parked next to them full of god knows what, or a decrepit little dog leashed with a piece of string, generally with a sign written on a piece of cardboard placed next to a hat on the ground in front of them.
Bureaucrats view GA much like those poor pathetic individuals, they are there, but you would really prefer them to just go away, and you definitely should remain upwind of them.
Back in the seventies, before aviation was regulated out of business most little country towns had an air service of some sort, where did all those forty years old navajo's still flying begin their life?
Country folk are by and large practical intelligent people, they fully understood that their commuter airline was perhaps not as safe as Quaintasses shiny jets, but there was a need, and the small operator filled that need, provided a service, and their customers accepted the risks because country folk live with risk every day, they understood that their air service was far less chancy than their car and astute to the principle that time is money.
It is apparent bureaucrats appear unfortunately to have no concept of time and money or service and need. They live in a Pollie Waffle world where serving the public good is completely at odds with serving political imperatives and their own self-interest.
It is apparent in the case of aviation that servicing the need of the "mystic" of safety, an esoteric principle devoid of practicality and in many cases common sense is promoted by the self-interest of an unaccountable few, to the detriment of a whole industry and by extension, the whole of society.
Why is Australia, endowed with passionate, innovative, inventive, highly industrious individuals devoid of little in the way of aeronautical enterprise?
Our public reveres the exploits of our aviation pioneers, yet remain ignorant to the fact that today most of them would be thrown in jail. Perhaps CAsA understands that fact and uses it to promote the perception that everyone involved in aviation is a criminal requiring unfetted power and unaccountability to law devolved to them.
The head of CAsA denies the evidence that is slapping him in the face, that aviation in this country is in crisis.
“There are none so blind as them that cannot or will not see”.
Which should beg the question how someone apparently so inept or ignorant or foolish or maybe all three could have risen to such an exalted rank in our military? God help us if we find ourselves in another fair dinkum stoush if he’s an example of our military expertise.
I think of Canada, Ireland, Brazil, all with massive aviation industries, even New Zealand powers ahead of Australia. Yet here, someone with vision and talent develops an idea only to see their vision squashed under the weight of bureaucratic bullshit.
Just what is different in Canada, Ireland, Brazil and New Zealand that they have thriving aviation industries and we do not?
Our prime minister exhorts us to use our innovation and entrepreneurial skills on one hand, yet chooses to ignore the fact that his bureaucrats are busily building road blocks in the background, stifling any chance of anything innovative seeing the light of day.
Our big players in aviation stay silent, yet I’m told seeth with indignation at CAsA’s ignorant imposts. Endeavouring to understand why this should be, I hypothesise, given the myriad exemptions granted to them by the regulator they are loath to rock the boat.
Without these dispensations against impossible to comply with rules they couldn’t operate. They have legal clout sure, against CAsA’s worst imposts, economy of scale ensures the financial penalties are easier to mitigate, a few more dollars on the ticket price goes unnoticed by the punters, but the exemptions are another matter.
“The lord giveth but the lord can just as easily take away”
Our exalted director of safety maintains that our new regulations are admired around the world. I’m not sure which world he is talking about, some mythical place maybe.
IF this is true AVM Skidmore, can you name a country adopting our rules? The whole Pacific as far north as Mongolia have adopted New Zealand rules, just who has adopted ours? Another myth I’m afraid, did you dream that up on your own or have you believed the ear whisperers standing behind you, because I know from many I have contact with overseas Australia is in reality a bit of a joke.
You also maintain regardless of all the evidence to the contrary that the aviation Industry in Australia is in “Good shape”. I would ask compared with what?
Statistics AVM Skidmore? There is truth in Statistics AVM, but liars produce statistics.
The one point I find so alarming is the lack of Logic.
Given that rules are supposed to support safety, Australia should be the safest country in the world to fly in given the volume of our rules, yet statistically it is not.
So what purpose do our unique rules serve?
It has taken over thirty years to half finish our reformed rule set. If it takes another 25 years to finish them they will be out of date and need rewriting all over again. Was that the intention?
Has it taken so long because there were not enough resources? Or that careful consideration was required to adopt world best practice? Or ensure we aligned with other comparable jurisdictions? Or that we needed to be ICAO compliant?
Seems not, almost half a billion dollars so far would seem adequate, New Zealand only needed five million.Will it take another half billion to finish them? So much for Malcom's Fiscal responsibility.
Our regulations are unique, nothing like anyone else’s, least of all any other first world countries.
Is that why we have so many of pages of differences with ICAO recommendations?
The overlord sitting above all this has been sitting there for over 25 years, a long time for a public servant to remain in the same position. During this time ably assisted by his Colleague Martin Dolan, our airports were flogged off to overseas consortiums residing in tax free havens and property developers who’s prime objective was gouging as much money out of the industry as possible, subverting the airports act to support industrial development to the detriment of aviation activity, and bypass environmental laws.
Both these two, Mrdak and Dolan, have in one guise or another presided over the demise of aviation in Australia, overseen the squandering hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, perverted a just culture, allowed our safety investigator to degenerate from a respected institution to a farce and aviation infrastructure to decline to third world status. They should be held to account.
I won’t hold my breath.Oh and guess who's on the Queens honours list? Go figure???
Bureaucrats view GA much like those poor pathetic individuals, they are there, but you would really prefer them to just go away, and you definitely should remain upwind of them.
Back in the seventies, before aviation was regulated out of business most little country towns had an air service of some sort, where did all those forty years old navajo's still flying begin their life?
Country folk are by and large practical intelligent people, they fully understood that their commuter airline was perhaps not as safe as Quaintasses shiny jets, but there was a need, and the small operator filled that need, provided a service, and their customers accepted the risks because country folk live with risk every day, they understood that their air service was far less chancy than their car and astute to the principle that time is money.
It is apparent bureaucrats appear unfortunately to have no concept of time and money or service and need. They live in a Pollie Waffle world where serving the public good is completely at odds with serving political imperatives and their own self-interest.
It is apparent in the case of aviation that servicing the need of the "mystic" of safety, an esoteric principle devoid of practicality and in many cases common sense is promoted by the self-interest of an unaccountable few, to the detriment of a whole industry and by extension, the whole of society.
Why is Australia, endowed with passionate, innovative, inventive, highly industrious individuals devoid of little in the way of aeronautical enterprise?
Our public reveres the exploits of our aviation pioneers, yet remain ignorant to the fact that today most of them would be thrown in jail. Perhaps CAsA understands that fact and uses it to promote the perception that everyone involved in aviation is a criminal requiring unfetted power and unaccountability to law devolved to them.
The head of CAsA denies the evidence that is slapping him in the face, that aviation in this country is in crisis.
“There are none so blind as them that cannot or will not see”.
Which should beg the question how someone apparently so inept or ignorant or foolish or maybe all three could have risen to such an exalted rank in our military? God help us if we find ourselves in another fair dinkum stoush if he’s an example of our military expertise.
I think of Canada, Ireland, Brazil, all with massive aviation industries, even New Zealand powers ahead of Australia. Yet here, someone with vision and talent develops an idea only to see their vision squashed under the weight of bureaucratic bullshit.
Just what is different in Canada, Ireland, Brazil and New Zealand that they have thriving aviation industries and we do not?
Our prime minister exhorts us to use our innovation and entrepreneurial skills on one hand, yet chooses to ignore the fact that his bureaucrats are busily building road blocks in the background, stifling any chance of anything innovative seeing the light of day.
Our big players in aviation stay silent, yet I’m told seeth with indignation at CAsA’s ignorant imposts. Endeavouring to understand why this should be, I hypothesise, given the myriad exemptions granted to them by the regulator they are loath to rock the boat.
Without these dispensations against impossible to comply with rules they couldn’t operate. They have legal clout sure, against CAsA’s worst imposts, economy of scale ensures the financial penalties are easier to mitigate, a few more dollars on the ticket price goes unnoticed by the punters, but the exemptions are another matter.
“The lord giveth but the lord can just as easily take away”
Our exalted director of safety maintains that our new regulations are admired around the world. I’m not sure which world he is talking about, some mythical place maybe.
IF this is true AVM Skidmore, can you name a country adopting our rules? The whole Pacific as far north as Mongolia have adopted New Zealand rules, just who has adopted ours? Another myth I’m afraid, did you dream that up on your own or have you believed the ear whisperers standing behind you, because I know from many I have contact with overseas Australia is in reality a bit of a joke.
You also maintain regardless of all the evidence to the contrary that the aviation Industry in Australia is in “Good shape”. I would ask compared with what?
Statistics AVM Skidmore? There is truth in Statistics AVM, but liars produce statistics.
The one point I find so alarming is the lack of Logic.
Given that rules are supposed to support safety, Australia should be the safest country in the world to fly in given the volume of our rules, yet statistically it is not.
So what purpose do our unique rules serve?
It has taken over thirty years to half finish our reformed rule set. If it takes another 25 years to finish them they will be out of date and need rewriting all over again. Was that the intention?
Has it taken so long because there were not enough resources? Or that careful consideration was required to adopt world best practice? Or ensure we aligned with other comparable jurisdictions? Or that we needed to be ICAO compliant?
Seems not, almost half a billion dollars so far would seem adequate, New Zealand only needed five million.Will it take another half billion to finish them? So much for Malcom's Fiscal responsibility.
Our regulations are unique, nothing like anyone else’s, least of all any other first world countries.
Is that why we have so many of pages of differences with ICAO recommendations?
The overlord sitting above all this has been sitting there for over 25 years, a long time for a public servant to remain in the same position. During this time ably assisted by his Colleague Martin Dolan, our airports were flogged off to overseas consortiums residing in tax free havens and property developers who’s prime objective was gouging as much money out of the industry as possible, subverting the airports act to support industrial development to the detriment of aviation activity, and bypass environmental laws.
Both these two, Mrdak and Dolan, have in one guise or another presided over the demise of aviation in Australia, overseen the squandering hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, perverted a just culture, allowed our safety investigator to degenerate from a respected institution to a farce and aviation infrastructure to decline to third world status. They should be held to account.
I won’t hold my breath.Oh and guess who's on the Queens honours list? Go figure???