Clinton’s analysis details in depth the many crying issues facing our much beleaguered General Aviation industry and the obvious drawbacks of the truly intolerable, very expensive and unworkable rules and unnecessary procedures that CASA is bent on maintaining.
No less an important issue being the unhealthy mental state of many who take to the air fearing to be caught out inadvertently committing any number of criminal acts that are lurking in CASA’s catch all regulatory volumes.
We’ve had a new CASA CEO, also known by the fatuous title of Director of Air Safety, since the 17th. of May. In her promotional or introductory literature she tells us that change will be “incremental” and that we are “inching” towards completion of regulations (yes the same that Mr. Carmody told us were finished).
CASA had an instrument of exemption that allowed the issue of a PPL with the Basic Class 2, but that was discarded. Noted by AOPA in August on it’s FB site AOPA is trying to get back the BC2 for PPL licence issue. It really is a tough decision, anyone can see the awful ramifications, and so even the easiest and uncontroversial reform it seems, certainly in a timely manner, is beyond the CEO and the new PMO, let alone the CASA Board. The latter of course has always been out of sight, and completely silent on any real issues that might curtail the unlimited power of CASA or produce any reforms that could help GA from sliding further into the bureaucratic mire.
Dr. Manderson talked to us about risk in terms of medical fitness and examination for certificates.
The conversations did not seem to come to the facts. Firstly that we’ve had a successful self declared car driver standard in place for around 30 years in RAAUS, let’s ignore that. Or the facts from the USA where their Basic C2, now with 66,000 PPLs, relies mostly on self declaration and sensibly allows IFR. Risk? See below.
