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.