PennyBenjamin
Your enthiusastic support for the subject operator and their rights are to be applauded, however as you yourself reveal that you are not yet qualified, it hard for us to take you and your diatribe seriously. Especially given that you seem to have registered here specifically to raise your point.
If you have direct personal experience of
suggests CASA victimised and blackmaled (sic) polar and thus they had to fight for their survival
at this stage of your career we might be driven suggest you consider another.
The publicly known facts are;
Polar Aviation Pty Ltd
Cancellation of Air Operators CertificateAir Operators Certificate W073061 cancelled from 31 January 2005
Reason
A show cause notice was issued to Polar Aviation Pty Ltd in July 2004 asking why its air operators certificate should not be cancelled or suspended. After carefully considering all available evidence - including a written response to the show cause notice, a meeting held between the operator and CASA and a special audit of the operator's bases - CASA is satisfied grounds exist to cancel the certificate.
The facts and circumstances demonstrate Polar Aviation on many occasions over an extensive period of time did not comply with requirements of the Civil Aviation Act and Civil Aviation Regulations. The operator did not take all reasonable steps to ensure all activities were done with reasonable care and diligence and did not maintain an appropriate organisation with appropriately qualified personnel and a sound and effective management structure.
Issues identified by CASA included the conduct of flight operations, maintenance of aircraft and a lack of a safety culture and systems.
On 11 February 2005, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal extended Polar Aviation Pty Ltd's AOC until the hearing of the application for review of CASA's decision to cancel the AOC.
Due process is in train under the new enforcement regulations, Polar are flying on their
own AOC until such time as the issues and future actions are finally determined by the AAT.
Polar, under the new enforcement regulations are fully entitled to and have taken the case to the AAT for determination by them.
That the AAT has allowed that they may continue to operate does not mean that the AAT has made a determination as to the validity of the actions of CASA, nor that Polar does not have a case to answer.
It simply means that the new enforcement regs are working to allow the benefit of the doubt to Polar, who may continue to operate, until they, the AAT, can properly consider all of the evidence and make their finding.
CASA are operating in a new regulatory environment and are fully aware that any and all of their actions are liable to this intense form of scrutiny. It should be assumed therefore that they do not act frivolously.
FYI it is not possible nor should it be, to borrow or lease an AOC, to be able to do so would make a mockery of the reason for their issue.
The Friday AAT hearing transcripts will not be available for a bit but I am sure would be educational for you.
Perhaps then;
when i become qualified since it is inspiring to see a company with enough backbone to take on the over-powered legislators.
you and we might become better informed on the obligations we incur when we seek to transport the travelling public.
You see, and it might be a disappointment to you, but, it's got not much to do at all with just being a pilot.