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Old 19th Jun 2022, 02:25
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Lead Balloon
 
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The one we see now is likely a modified version of the OAR report.
Well that is interesting.

That might explain why the start of recommendation 7 quoted in Australian Flying says, with my bolding: “As an interim action pending the completion of Recommendation 8, CASA should demand CTA around Ballina with a base which is as low as possible. ”, but that’s not what the start of recommendation 7 of the version posted on CASA’s website says. Maybe Australian Flying obtained a copy of the actual OAR draft report?

It is, of course, a patent nonsense for CASA to “demand” airspace of any kind anywhere in Australia. That would be a demand CASA would be making of … CASA. Perhaps the drafters of the OAR report quoted by Australian Flying didn’t realise that OAR is part of CASA?

On my reading of the Airspace regs, it looks like the only person with power to determine a volume of airspace to be e.g. CTA is the CEO of CASA! Those regs include power to delegate some powers (e.g. PRD) in and outside CASA, but no power to delegate the power to designate the ‘biggies’ - classes and the volumes of those classes of airspace.

Methinks there’s a game of pass the ticking and stinking parcel going on, in the hope that there will be a sufficient diffusion of responsibility if there’s a mid-air involving an RPT aircraft in the vicinity of Ballina and for the long and loud complaints that will be made about costs and access that will arise from the recommended arrangements. Methinks the ticking and stinking parcel is currently parked in Ms Spence’s lap and the consultation process is another diffusion of responsibility tactic.

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