CASA are hiding in the Sand.
Mr. CASA ...who was structuring the new CASR 133 regarding EMS / SAR / MPT night regulations, and in fact came up with some realistic requirements, has now transferred out and guess what??
That Original Draft CASR 133 has now been changed, and basically CASA have not progressed the standards one tiny bit.
And why was it changed??....ask the people who fought against the Autopilots outside 10 nms, lit coastlines etc. The same group that was implicit in a recent fatal accident on the same coast. [And no not the actual operator involved].
And the reason this occurred is that CASA is driven by faceless, senior administrators that have no actual experience or qualificatuions to base their actions on.
[That is no reflection on a handful of very capable, base level FOI's...but the dills above them]
TC...Thats where CASA is, with their heads tightly up their own bums.