Originally Posted by
triadic
To bring this thread back on the subject - the implementation process for a Restricted Area for political reasons: The following from Australian Flying magazine this afternoon.....
This request should never have been approved by CASA.
Correct, it should not have been approved. However, the CASA CEO, who knows naught about aviation but plenty about politics, is only doing what her political masters have instructed her to do. As we all know, a CASA CEO/DAS and the Board are in place not to make proactive and disciplined aviation decisions based upon safety and risk, they are in place to protect the Minister of the day and do as he says. And in this case, the PM did not want the size and scope of the protests to be reported honesty and accurately for all to see, hence the hastily enforced restricted airspace.