Oh, wouldn't be luverly.
If, the ATSB used it's new legal muscles and had a look into the systemic failures which are directly attributable to the CASA. A truth meter would be a gift from above.
Stuff like arbitrary:- ordering / approving (of course verbal ) changes to AFM check systems, I can think of three that I know of, not little "Grobs" either.
Offering a choice (play nice or loose your brief) of useless simulator OEI, or the real thing, during training for aircraft with no certified OEI performance. The ATSB are lucky to have (the only time in history) a surviving crew of a OEI training prang. There are questions that need to asked at the highest level on that episode.
Mandatory de stabilizing of final approach (blue line or bust). OEI decision height, no Joyce, not for us, not today.
Demanding, despite AFM warning stalling aircraft which the manufacturer states, categorically should only be done by qualified test pilots under tightly controlled conditions.
Approving check systems which don't get within a bulls roar of the AFM and then; in one place approving 'procedural' check systems and wildly decrying the same procedure 300 miles away.
One guy insisting an aircraft be operated under 20.7.4 another insisting the same aircraft must be operated multi crew, while the left hand is merrily spruking CAO 20.7.1B. just down the track.
It's a cynical joke, you need to restructure the asylum before giving the inmates a nice shiny, sharp new toy to use. Although, then again, they may just cut themselves. All those in favor of tough love, hands up.
If the pollies can't or wont do it, perhaps the ATSB can. This time bomb (not if but when) has a real potential to create a political nightmare for the incumbent Minister. Remember SEAVIEW, that should have brought down a government, never mind the hapless suit stuffed in the 'hot seat'. Poison chalice. You bet.
Fetch the buggy Joyce, but leave the rocks, Tempus fugit.