ICAO! Who cares about ICAO?
Gold “K” pure gold! Although I think you’ll find the lampshade was actually an inverted pot plant borrowed from Senator Nash’s Devo memorabilia! Note: Before anyone asks it was approved and properly stamped by the RSPPP (‘Royal Society for the protection of pot plants’).
Moving right along….
DCT the RUFDUS sub20 maybe light in content but (as Oleo alludes) there is, I believe, a significant message in the submission, the final paragraph reads…“ The Royal Flying Doctor Service would welcome the opportunity to assist in the development and implementation of regulations that will improve safety in aeromedical operations while maintaining emergency and health services to the bush…”, fancy that could the Senators actually be suggesting consultation with relevant parts of the industry??
It is also worth noting that this submission was received (19/03/2013) and made publicly available at a very late stage of the inquiry. This would suggest that the Senate RRAT committee has written to the RFDS to seek their input to possibly help address the outstanding issue of aerial ambulance regulations that has been obfuscated and delayed by Fort Fumble for well over a decade!
The PAIN link ‘ICAO (FAA) Audit Recommendations and Response’, although long and ‘dry’ makes the DAS statement…“Since then we have rectified that completely”… even more risible
. It doesn’t take long to work out that there was a lot more non-compliances highlighted in the FAA audit than just inadequate training of certain sectors of the FF inspectorate!
From RRAT committee report:
3.45 The committee asked in relation to the Federal Aviation Administration Audit conducted in late 2009 for an update on the items, which were found to be deficient.
Mr McCormack informed the committee that the major issue was that CASA did not have sufficient training in place for the inspectorate. In response to the audit, Mr McCormack explained that a training school in Brisbane has been setup, where all inspectors undergo training to supplement their on-the-job training.
Still maybe we need to give the FF spin-doctors the benefit of the doubt as Senator Fawcett’s QON from 12/02/13 (QON 129, CASA 03)
is yet to be answered…hmm you wouldn’t want to be holding your breath though!!
Gobbles in a pair of budgy smugglers now there’s a thought...
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Nah doesn’t fit the guy never wears pants let alone slugos!! However I do see the resemblance to the Mad Monk, especially those wingnut ears.
Last edited by Sarcs; 9th Apr 2013 at 04:07.