We Aussies have inherited some of the ‘stiff upper lip’ British culture which says, why make anything easy when you can just as easily make it hard or bloody near impossible.
Not at
all true,
bp - Australians are nowhere near as conservative as the Brits, and perhaps even moreso than the Yanks. "
Have a go mate" is a well-known Aussie phrase that sums up the willingness of Australians to try something new.
I don’t agree with all the aspects of the NAS and I’ve had my say, but these decisions are not my responsibility or yours. If !!!! happens they were warned and we need to get on with our lives.
As professionals, employed, and thereby intimately involved in Australian aviation, these ARE our responsibilities - after all, these are the tools that we will be given to work with, and from the outset the tradesmen are stating "
These are the WRONG tools! If forced to work with these, then the end product WILL be faulty."
How easy is it going to be "getting on with our lives", knowing that we have been responsible for the deaths of several hundred people, because we allowed a design fault to be KNOWINGLY built in to what is often a fragile system?!
Whilst the idea of a stopwork would certainly gain attention, it is going to p!ss a lot of people off unnecessarily.
The idea of choosing some set dates to hold rallies at airports, and to distribute handouts would be just as effective, imo.