I sincerely wish all Tiger guys and gals the best over the next few days. Hopefully when airborne again, your will be more properly supported by your management.
Perhaps the Senate Enquiry has shined more a heatlamp spotlight towards the Minister and CASA more than many give credit for. Maybe, just maybe, CASA actually might start to regulate, not just pontificate. Maybe the levels of overall support to repressed crews in this country might come under more scrutiny.
Systemically, we have seen decades of our governments stripping services designed to support pilots, CASA failing to regulate and rewrite their regs in suport of pilots, and airline management squeezing the max from their pilots with a disregard of related human factor issues, max duty hours and and max pax, all putting greater levels of responsibility on crews who can be more tired, more reliant on automation in an environment now littered with more traps and holes in the cheese than ever before. There is a tower at Avalon, but was there a controller there at the time of this incident to support this crew? Qantas pays ASA to keep towers operating for even delayed Qantas arrivals, but do LCC need this level of support also? If not, why is there a difference Mr CASA? Is the risk assessment worth reexamining?