Poppajo:
don’t think anyone gets special treatment. It’s just, everyone gets no treatment.
Poppa, I have consistently said that CASA does not have the ability to survielle QANTAS or any other Jet operating RPT airline since at least as early as 1978. They can only confine themselves to auditing paperwork and paper systems. They have no technical capacity to engage directly with any engineering or operational issue involving a heavy jet.
1978 was when I built an IT based engineering defect analysis system to provide reports to the regulator; “tell us how safe you are “ was the CAA request. The system calculated our performance using statistical quality control methods and every month we sent the report to CAA. Never heard from them again.
‘’Fast forward to 2018 - QANTAS pilot mate: “They come around asking questions, we tell them bull####, they go away”.
‘’Now if you are a GA person CASA can and will make your life hell if they feel like it because the aircraft are easy to understand and you do not have the political clout that QANTAS has.