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Old 28th Jun 2012, 02:53
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I would dearly love to see CASA move away from this legislative, corporate monster they appear to be at the moment and become a fair-dinkum mentoring and facilitating organisation, leading from the front as far as safety and standards go. I see this starting with a strong push to work with the flying schools and be involved right from the word go in every pilot's development as a believable and approachable group of experts who know what they're talking about and don't hide behind a smoke screen of legalese.

They still need to carry the big stick and take strong action where it's required (as apparently didn't happen in the Hempel case, discussed at length elsewhere), but with that, set the example to operators by being at pains to show they are on the same side as legitimate business and private aviators who want to do it right.
Off subject, but the FAA got in all kinds of problems a number of years ago with just this policy. In supporting the industry, it started turning a blind eye to some of the problems. Took a big stick and a change of procedure to get it back to doing its job.
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