With the greatest respect Clinton, the mere fact that you are arguing the right of a CASA to extend to its employees
the power to choose the method of compliance with the regulations that suits them personally destroys your, and CASA's case (assuming that CASA holds your views) totally and completely.
You are completely missing the point of criticism of CASA.
IT IS ABOUT OBTAINING CERTAINTY AND REPEATABILITY IN DEALINGS WITH THE ORGANISATION!!!!!!!!!!
Nobody gives a flying
if you want to pull the mixture or the throttle, or how you require the performance of any other test or act involved with flying...
What all of us want is:
1. For the exact same requirement to apply from one end of Australia to the other.
2. For CASA to test for compliance with that requirement in exactly the same way every time.
3. For the method of compliance and acceptance criteria to be stated in writing and available to all pilots and organizations all the time.
In other words, Clinton, it should be possible for an operator or pilot, by reading coherent documentation, to determine exactly what compliance requires and exactly how it must be demonstrated.
Most importantly, it also constrains the testing officer or official involved, from exercising undue personal bias or partiality either for or against the subject.
The FACT that disputes catalogued in threads like this even exist is proof that CASA is a failed bureaucracy!!!
To put it yet another way Clinton, if shock cooling is a myth, and pulling the mixture is the way to go, then CASA MUST publish a directive to all FOI's and ATO's and the industry, requiring that this is the only acceptable way for these tests to be performed and specifying the exact test conditions.
DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE REASON BUREAUCRACY WAS CREATED???????? TO DO AWAY WITH POINTLESS AND COSTLY ARGUMENTS CAUSED BY DIFFERING INTERPRETATIONS OF "RULES" BY PETTY OFFICIALS
And what does this thread contain? Petty arguments about the correct way of demonstrating engine out procedure. And please don't resort to arguments about differences between types.
it's differences between CASA Officials that are at the root of the problem.
..and I say this in a caring and sharing manner in the hope that all of us will benefit.