Originally Posted by
Check Airman
Good morning may not be standard, but it's good manners. Anyone who'd seriously take issue with that should learn to relax a bit.
Except in Australia, where ultimately it could earn you a criminal record as a strict liability criminal offense.
A criminal record, or even a charge, can be fatal to an aviation career.
This is not theory, a little while back there was attempt by CASA to include the whole of the standard phraseology as a "regulation", a breach (even getting the order of words wrong in a (say) starup clearance call, would be a strict liability (virtually no defence) offence of 50 penalty points, currently about AUD$11,000.00.+.
The stated purpose of the proposed change was to make "enforcement of radio communications procedures easier to prosecute, or issue administrative fines", or words to that effect. It can be done now, the "system" just wanted to make enforcement action more straightforward, as ICAO SARPs are, as you know, "only" recommended.
Those of us on the CASA Standards Consultative Committee at the time were not in the least bit surprised.
The SCC has since been dissolved, the easy way to get rid of voices (large slabs of the industry) that often dissented from CASA proposals.
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