At estimates on 22 February Mr Carmody said:
Our view is that community service flights have an accident/incident rate significantly higher than private operations.
Community service flights
are private operations.
The circular nonsense that CASA trots out to justify its decisions messes with my head. It’s beyond Orwellian.
Does CASA
really believe that the number of accidents in community services flights in Australia can reasonably be considered statistically significant? Really? Have they spoken to an expert in statistics or an actuary? Ever?
In
100% of cases involving fatalities in community service flights in Australia,
the pilot in command was male. It inexorably follows that the regulatory standards for male pilots must be increased and more stringently enforced compared with those for non-male pilots. The statistics speak for themselves.
I don’t know why CASA just doesn’t tell the truth: This is a knee jerk reaction as a consequence of pressure from one quarter, which reaction will be disallowed as a consequences of pressure from another quarter.
This is what happens when you make the police the makers of the road rules and the speed limit.