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Anyone who thinks that simply meeting the regulations acheives a coherent operating standard is mistaken"
Why don't you go right ahead, write to the CEO and Minister of CASA and make that point? Let us know how you get on?
BTW what sector of rotary are you in, doen't look like the big stuff cos they have bags of books on safety pocedures mostly all ranked as below.
There is absolutely nothing aviation, or anything else, specific about it. It applies with equal force to software engineering, window cleaning and helicopter operations.
The difference between a software engineer and a helicopter pilot being that; whilst they are forced to have heads spinning to the detriment of their basic saftey skillsets with this utterly irrelevant SMS / ISO nonsense and while trying to make sense of confusion out the front window or of nasty noises behind him is that the software engineer can stroll to the latte cafe, chat up the paper copy girl and whilst his thaing may crash after he takes his hands off, it won't hurt anyone.
Time to get away from that rubbish and get back to basics, or is that what you are driving at?
cheers tet.