A great report, but where to now. Industry has been complaining about this kind of treatment for nearly 2 decades. The Whyalla report was never corrected and here also CAsA withheld evidence. The AvGas contamination, it took CAsA several years to respond to recommendations and that in the negative. an investigation would have shown incompetence or more likely a cover-up by CAsA.
Reprisal actions, too many to list here are a regular occurrence. As has been shown, when CAsA has no qualms about putting pressure on the ATSB, what hope has there been for the G.A.industry.
Strangely the airlines don’t appear to have this problem with CAsA, why could that be when incidents are regularly identified and reported ???
Withholding information is CAsA’s forte. When CAsA is challenged in the AAT or Federal Court you can be assured that most relevant information (critical of CAsA) is withheld.
Only those brave (some would say foolhardy)enough may succeed under F.O.I. to gain some limited information. Bringing the matter of withholding information to the relevant authorities is generally a waste of time. It will again be interesting to see if the Committee has better luck ? In the case of the AAT the Act requires ALL relevant information be supplied for the Tribunal to make a decision. How is a “Victim of CAsA”, or for that matter a member of the Tribunal, supposed to know documents are missing. It naturally relies on the (CAsA)lawyers as officers of the Court to be scrupulously (having moral integrity) honest!
What a joke! to think that many genuine people in CAsA are prepared to live with this ($$$)establishes the fact that its APATHY which makes this such a great nation. -
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