Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority seeks new CEO/DAS
Just a heads up, due closing date approaching on Sunday 23 August 2020.
The CEO/DAS, duties include the need to represent and advocate Australia’s civil aviation safety program in a complex, dynamic, and politically sensitive environment. New CEO must provide clear policy direction, lead transformational change, manage risks, and strengthen relationships with the aviation community, government, and the Australian public.
Access to the information pack is shown on the CASA website.
The outgoing CEO/DAS has stated he has completed the regulatory reform process which will become effective over the next few years. Unfortunately, the helicopter industry probably had to make more changes than their aeroplane cousins within the general aviation industry.
To his credit, CASA provided enormous support during the recent catastrophic bushfires; and then the ongoing coronavirus pandemic which also required a large number of concessions, permissions, and extensions of many a workforce licences and permits, etc.
The incoming CEO/DAS will have an enormous task to relook at lessons learnt during the bushfire season, and drastic changes required within the aviation industry during the worsening pandemic. Now severe financial hardships are being experienced within the airline community, and to a lesser extent in the general aviation helicopter industry. However, both segments are really struggling.
The rotorcraft industry will have to be prepared to step forward and help the no doubt stressed regulator when we push hard to establish a vast number of UAS operations and other autonomous vehicles operating within Australian cities. Integration of the UAM within the controlled airway system will be an enormous effort by both the owners and operators of the new technology and the government regulators who have to make enormous changes in the way our skies may look in the future.
We are living in an age of rapid change; Darwin would be not aware his theory of evolutional has gone into the hypersonic mode!
As Prime Minister Scott Morrison tells us from time to time, we are all in this together, he is demanding red tape be slashed; and this includes our industry which needs to try and make the best of our unknown future opportunities when they arise. But we must be able to help ourselves and help others who have the responsibility of regulating safety and hopefully the sustainability factor.
What do you think? (Be positive).