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This financial year if you go to Townsville you would be eligible for $143/night in accomodation. I don't know what it's like in FNQ but i can't imagine that would get you a "very, very handsome accomodation". Standard hotel/motel room probably yes.
Hate to burst your bubble, but that's not unique to CASA when it comes to travel for public servants/Defence folk.
I merely contributed more "truth" into the implications of your earlier post. And I anticipate that the 'everyone else is doing it' defence, which is in effect: "CASA's snout is no deeper in the public trough than other government jobsworths", will ring quite hollow for those who have to work to fill those troughs.
TB: I have to say my presumptive response to all those stories of breathtaking, arrogantly unreasonable CASA behaviour is to call: "Bull****". The main reason for that is I understand that the justification for not providing names/dates/times/rego numbers/copies of correspondence is the fear of retribution. That's a complete nonsense.
The limited details provided are, if true, nonetheless sufficient to enable even the thickest of CASA's jobsworths to work out the operator to whom reference is made. Therefore, if CASA were minded to take reprisals against those who've exposed breathtaking, arrogant unreasonableness, CASA already knows the operators to whom these stories relate.
All of that said, CASA AVMED's return to the Dark Ages on CVD, and Mr Skidmore's support of it, is unassailable objective evidence of breathtaking, arrogantly unreasonable behaviour by CASA, so there's still doubt in my mind.
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This financial year if you go to Townsville you would be eligible for $143/night in accomodation. I don't know what it's like in FNQ but i can't imagine that would get you a "very, very handsome accomodation". Standard hotel/motel room probably yes.
And ... sigh ... the correct spelling of accommodation is accommodation. You have to try really hard to ignore the WSWS (Wrong Spelling Warning System) alarm to spell it incorrectly. You could have even copied and pasted my words, given that you purported to quote them.
Turns out it's very easy to misspell on your phone.
Do we know for a fact that they get the full $269.60 in cash to spend how they like? Work books the accommodation for me and they definitely work to the $143 figure. Whilst I don't work for CASA I do work for the other one everyone loves to hate.
Do we know for a fact that they get the full $269.60 in cash to spend how they like? Work books the accommodation for me and they definitely work to the $143 figure. Whilst I don't work for CASA I do work for the other one everyone loves to hate.
Gosh, I thought others were bursting my bubble by declaring the "truth".
I know the answer to your question. Do you?
I've worked for just about everyone that just about everyone loves to hate.
I know the answer to your question. Do you?
I've worked for just about everyone that just about everyone loves to hate.
I don't know the answer. I can say that I don't get the cash. No idea how they operate but I wouldn't have thought it would be to dissimilar. Maybe it is?
It's "too" dissimilar, not "to" dissimilar. (Unfortunately, just as an altimeter doesn't tell you your height above terrain, the WSWS doesn't highlight incorrect usage of homophones.)
I reckon if they're entitled to $269.60 a day in accommodation and meals, they're better off than about 80% of the saps whose taxes fill those troughs.
I reckon if they're entitled to $269.60 a day in accommodation and meals, they're better off than about 80% of the saps whose taxes fill those troughs.
thank you for that lead leadie. I had not come across the term homophone before .Initially I had some strange misinterpretations going on .
too crass to elaborate upon here .
you are not excessively pedantic at all . .. . you are placing the language and its uses in the context and regard that all should aspire to, naturally.
will you proof read my next drafts of pulp fiction submissions to the publisher , (i.e. Mills and Boon)?
Homophone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophone
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning, and may differ in spelling. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or to, two, and too.
too crass to elaborate upon here .
you are not excessively pedantic at all . .. . you are placing the language and its uses in the context and regard that all should aspire to, naturally.
will you proof read my next drafts of pulp fiction submissions to the publisher , (i.e. Mills and Boon)?
Homophone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophone
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning, and may differ in spelling. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or to, two, and too.
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Gentlemen,
It is the Peoples Front of Judea.
Brian,....remember Brian?
32 post to drift from an important heads up between the disparity between the regulators state of viability and industries viability to squabbling over to or too.
Is it CASA or the gumbit who is the cause of our demise or is it us?
It is the Peoples Front of Judea.
Brian,....remember Brian?
32 post to drift from an important heads up between the disparity between the regulators state of viability and industries viability to squabbling over to or too.
Is it CASA or the gumbit who is the cause of our demise or is it us?
the pity's sake you don't have to get on your high horse about a little digression about words. Nobody's squabbling about to or too or two . Bear in mind the originating poster made this
somewhat cynical, fatuous, smart-arse remark -
As far as an important heads up goes , point out, if you can, any post so far that goes beyond giving disturbing instances of a seriously malfunctioning arm of the bureaucracy. Look in vain for informed discussion focussing on reform , aimed at solutions . The pathetic head-banging emicon adds nothing to the debate.
somewhat cynical, fatuous, smart-arse remark -
I have an idea. Why don’t all the people in GA move over to working for CASA? Then we will have a viable industry again
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I hope that ad means that a certain AWI is going to be replaced.
It would be nice to have one who is familiar with CAR 42ZC.
It would be nice to have one who is familiar with CAR 42ZC.
Squabbling, Obidiah? I thought we were having a quite civilised discussion about, among other things, the allowances to which CASA staff are entitled. Those allowances are funded by ... the industry. And that seems to me to be of some relevance to the subject matter of this thread.
wishiwasupthere is just miffed because more truth was added to "the truth" to provide a more accurate version of "the truth". Jerks like me like winding jerks like wishiwasupthere up. It's fun.
wishiwasupthere is just miffed because more truth was added to "the truth" to provide a more accurate version of "the truth". Jerks like me like winding jerks like wishiwasupthere up. It's fun.
Interestingly I recently went looking for that article in John's Pelican Perch archives, it seemed to be the only one missing, maybe I just had a blokes look...maybe??
The Pilot's Lounge #96: Bureaucrats Or Radium Dials -- Which Poses A Greater Danger? - AVweb Features Article
Folks,
As it happens, Jeff Pearson is an old mate of mine, even Kafka could not have imagined this one.
Not only was a business destroyed, but the biggest store of legacy instruments and parts in the USA, which means anywhere in the world.
The "radiation hounds" not only destroyed instruments that had some radium dials, the complete stock on two premises was destroyed as "contaminated", and as the article probably says, ALL the offending instruments, along with almost all rest, were US Government disposals, sold by US Government surplus sales, with, of course, no warning that "they" were going to come after him.
One thing I remember well, the virtually complete ignorance of what "radiation" is, among the bureaucratic activists, graduates all in "liberal arts", all we got was a blank stare when we asked if they were going to outlaw "nuclear medicine", or people standing in the sun.
In the end, it seemed like a competition between Federal and California EPA to come up with the stupidest requirements.
Jeff was in Australia last year, doing C-195 clinics, he had a great time --- CASA was not involved.
Tootle pip!!
As it happens, Jeff Pearson is an old mate of mine, even Kafka could not have imagined this one.
Not only was a business destroyed, but the biggest store of legacy instruments and parts in the USA, which means anywhere in the world.
The "radiation hounds" not only destroyed instruments that had some radium dials, the complete stock on two premises was destroyed as "contaminated", and as the article probably says, ALL the offending instruments, along with almost all rest, were US Government disposals, sold by US Government surplus sales, with, of course, no warning that "they" were going to come after him.
One thing I remember well, the virtually complete ignorance of what "radiation" is, among the bureaucratic activists, graduates all in "liberal arts", all we got was a blank stare when we asked if they were going to outlaw "nuclear medicine", or people standing in the sun.
In the end, it seemed like a competition between Federal and California EPA to come up with the stupidest requirements.
Jeff was in Australia last year, doing C-195 clinics, he had a great time --- CASA was not involved.
Tootle pip!!
Remember Dick, when you first took over CAA (or was it ..?) the ratio of Dept staff to registered aircraft was 3:1, ie., 3 staff per aircraft.
Now that was safety !
CASA is no doubt working it's way back to this target ratio.
Now that was safety !
CASA is no doubt working it's way back to this target ratio.
