It is an organisation which attracts sociopaths ... They work in a world, a fantasy world where accountability does not exist, where you cannot be sacked, where you can remain unskilled and out of touch with the real aviation environment while making decisions not based on safety but based upon fulfilling ego, pride, arrogance and a conceited lust for power and domination. . .
No sense of justice, no conscience, no empathy, no moral compass and no understanding. But what do you expect from an environment that fosters, creates and embraces schoolyard bullies.
My Oleo is right.
There is growing research that describes in detail this process of sociopathic control of organizations. The process is known as ponefication.
Whenever you combine the power of judge, jury, and executioner in one organisation not only are sociopaths naturally drawn to it, but their prescence creates a environment where all others are forced to follow their thinking. The cost for humanity has been catastrophic.
Piloting and flying is the ultimate freedom where the pilot exercises individual decision making free for a time from the control of others. This is the absolute antithesis of those in bureaucratic organizations where the individual is just a cog in a juggernaut blindly following the rules. Thus mentally there is always incredible friction between free thinkers and autocrats they span different sides of a metaphysical chasm. Interestingly enough MRI brain scan research back up what My Oleo said about the inherent cruelty of those drawn to such organizations - for a number in such organisations it really is a power game. And all it takes is for a small critical number of these sociopaths to rise up into positions of unaccountable power for them to rain hell down on the free. Just ask our Jewish friends when the friendly Nazis came through with their clipboards and smiles for just a standard survey of the neighbourhood a few weeks before the men in black rolled in at night with their trucks and dogs. Their justification is always that they are saving the world but in reality they are enjoying destroying the world. The psychology of it is fascinating and the implications for any groups such as operators and pilots under the control of such a tyrannical organization as CASA are truly frightening.
Another indicator of psychopathic control is judging an organisations success in external engagement and its level of humanity towards those it believes need help. If CASA has failed so terribly in engaging the industry and is so well and truly disliked by the industry it was made to SERVE then the servant has become the master - with unlimited power, even the power to override the laws of the land. If errors were made at BA - that is naturally - for where this is humans there will be mistakes. As humans we are all made from warped wood as someone else aptly described in this site. Organizations though should however have the right to try to fix their errors, not to be destroyed outright. For that is another indicator of psychopathic control whether they destroy outright or seek to help rehabilitate. . .
For those interested in knowing what you are really up against when you try to fight CASA and their ilk this is a fascinating and highly acclaimed work - Political Ponerology.