Originally Posted by
Sbaker
Maybe it's time for an industry vote of no-confidence in particular CASA staff / departments (IE: the LIRA department).
As my friend Paul Phelan wrote many years ago the aviation industry has lost trust in CASA.
The reasons are its intransigence, inconsistencies, extraordinarily complex and costly regulations and too many instances of straight up dishonesty.
There’s only one appropriate overall remedy and that is to revert to the Westminster system of responsible government. CASA must be disbanded and its functions given to a Department of government with Minister at its head.
The experiment of the independent corporate has failed, always was a muddle headed concept which was, initially all the rage, the creation of what was the idiotic and contradictory notion of a Government Business Enterprise (GBE). This term you may note has fallen out of use, having a government sponsored monopoly and trying to give it a semblance of a “business,” and the word “enterprise” in keeping with the free market idea, was never more than a dishonest confidence truck.
We must approach our MPs and ask them to support this fundamental reform.