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Old 20th Jun 2021, 02:02
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Lead Balloon
 
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Originally Posted by clark y
Aren't the rules being rewritten to make them easier, more functional or has that finished and this mess is the result?
According to CASA and the Queen’s Birthday gong-givers, the re-write was “completed” and “resolved” by Carmody a while ago.

Yep: You read that correctly.

The plan was never to replace the 1988 regulations with simple, outcomes-based and harmonised 1998 regulations that would render exemptions unnecessary.

Nope. The plan was always to spend 20 plus years and more than a couple of hundred millions dollars:
  • cutting some bits of the 1988 regulations out and making the remainder more complex
  • adding a couple of thousand pages of 1998 regulations, with the distribution of subject matters between the 1988 regulations and the 1998 regulations having no coherent or logical basis
  • adding a couple of thousand pages of manuals of standards, some of the provisions of which - get this: it’s pure regulatory genius - require compliance with the 1988 and 1998 regulations
  • keeping and adding to thousands of pages of Civil Aviation Orders and exemptions
  • abandoning the process and pretending the pile of regulatory **** left behind is a masterpiece.
Yep: That was the plan.

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