You’re so unkind, Ben. Look at all their achievements:
Work continues apace on Vertiports and ‘e’ taxis.
They’ve let the zealots loose, again, to resume their crusade against commercial pilots with CVD.
They’ve maintained the façade of medical certification “reform” and “evidence-based” medical decision-making. (And it's great to see that one of their very expensive doctors - their spin doctor - appears to have qualified himself to give expert medical evidence to parliamentary inquiries.)
They’ve presided over third world airspace arrangements, resulting in a mid-air collision of IFR aircraft whose mandated on-board equipment set off 4 alerts in the ATC system on the way to the collision. In our third world airspace arrangements, those alerts were and continue to be treated as a “nuisance” because there are no separation standards for IFR aircraft in G.
They’ve maintained the safety standards of air navigation services – for the few that aren't NOTAMd unavailable or capacity-reduced.
The regulatory reform program remains incomplete (expect some Orwellian statement, eventually, to the effect that it was always intended to continue with 1988 regulations and 1998 regulations and exemptions like confetti, forever).
They claim stochastic changes in accident and incident rates as ‘trends’ (and note the passive voice statement: “During the derivation of the 2021–22 results, it was identified the General Aviation sector occurrence trends were incorrectly calculated.”)
Speaking of stochastic and Orwellian, they claim to have “Achieved” the Target of “Improving trend in stakeholder satisfaction from regular surveys”. Under that claimed achievement the Report says: “Our biennial stakeholder satisfaction survey was conducted from April to May 2023 and invited a random sample of 6,600 stakeholders across all major client stakeholder groups. While there was an overall reduction in satisfaction (from 6.3 to 6.1), the survey found that satisfaction increased across most aspects of CASA’s performance since 2020. The overall rating was impacted by frustrations with service delivery due to delays in applications and approvals.” What a great “achievement”! And of course CASA’s going to be perceived as doing “at least a reasonable job” by lots of ordinary members of the public: Luckily for them and CASA, they don’t know how little causal connection there is between CASA’s activities and safety.
Most importantly, they’ve maintained their Qantas Chairman’s Lounge membership with absolutely no perceived conflict of interest with their duties as safety regulators of Qantas. And there couldn’t be a conflict, anyway, because Qantas has never once contravened any aviation safety rule. That’s what a great job CASA’s doing!
Last edited by Lead Balloon; 26th Oct 2023 at 21:13.