Goodbye licence and career if you have!
Besides the usual ramp checks currently very active around Cairns, Torres Straights, and Darwin, CASA have also started to audit pilot's logbooks. Experienced it myself on Wed. There will be an article in the Sep-Oct issue of 'Flight Safety Australia' which you all should be getting.
CASA inspector turns up to Operators base and issues notice for x number of logbooks to be available the following day for inspection. They won't remove the logbook from the premises but will scan and copy a whole heap of pages. I was told that they were looking at types flown, dates, and rego and doing crossreference checks with their records.
I'm not exactly sure of the process afterwards, but I do know that 3 of our charter pilots had their licence revoked from CASA and fired from work yesterday.
Please tell if you know more.
