Well noted Sunny:
However CASA and the ATSB established a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that now completely subverts the intent of not only Australias laws on the matter but Australias intenational obligations to the International Civil Aviation Organisation which is a big deal because non compliance prejudices the availability of international travel services to the Australian public.
The ATSB now transmits information to CASA that facilitates prosecution or administrative punishment against individual pilots and allegedly perverts its reports to make them supportive of CASAs preferred outcomes. This situation now guarantees that pilots will think twice before reporting anything to the ATSB at all - suppressing safety information.
The real problem in this is the directions by the Minister to:
- casa [By Instrument to the Board];
- asa [By Instrument to the Board] and:
- atsb [By a direction to the ATSB, directly by the Minister]
The three SOE [Statements of Expectations see:
Statements of Expectations | Assistance to the Aviation Industry ] are along the following lines:
Statement of Expectations (SOE) outlines in a formal and public way, my expectations concerning the operations and performance of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) from 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2013. This Statement of Expectations serves as a notice of strategic direction to CASA under section 12A of the Civil Aviation Act 1988 (the Act) and commences on 1 July 2011.
This is directly from the Minister and gets worse as you read on.