Originally Posted by
A and C
The UK CAA is suffering a crisis that is not of its own making, first all the really good people see that there is no future in being a regional office of EASA and go back into the industry or off to EASA HQ and then Brexit turns up and they are faced with regulation of the UK industry when all the experienced people have left the building.
my personal experience has been that all parts of the CAA apart from the pilot side of FCL have always been very helpful with parts of the airworthiness system going well out of their way to assist in some very difficult circumstances
People are leaving because they are working in a horrible oppressive demoralising environment, they have completely lost faith in the leadership and the direction the CAA is going in and frankly they earn a lot more in industry. It has nothing to do with being a 'regional office of EASA'.
I agree that individuals on the front line are hard working and go out of their way to help. They are working 50-60 hour weeks driving themselves in to the ground because if they don't people like you suffer.
The real issue with the CAA is that the experience is going, the motives are wrong and the safety culture is almost completely broken. Staff now believe the only thing that will fix it is a major accident. What a terrifying situation.