Steam on.
Sunny with great respect and much affection – Bollocks. These morale deprived, poor little sausages are every bit as much of the problem as the creatures who direct them. Guilty by association; they need to be hounded down, exposed, named, shamed and charged where applicable.
There are FOI out there who couldn't start to write a check system, let alone a supporting manual, pontificating on what 'they' will or will not accept. There are people out there thrice rejected at the point of a legal gun, who are strutting about with their thinly veiled, deep seated problems, using the most despicable of tactics to subvert and manipulate the system in order to justify a 'their safety' case. There are lunatic 'philosophies' being espoused on aircraft handling, enforced by dire threat. There are specifically targeted people, isolated by innuendo and threat. There are ludicrous regulations being added to equally ridiculous policy added to punitive, expensive legal dribble, on a daily basis. There are engineers who don't truly know if using tool 24 instead of tool 25 will land them in jail. There are operators who have spent $100,000 and almost two years to get a simple aircraft onto an AOC. There are operators and pilots who have been decimated on very thin grounds, without a chance of rehabilitation or affordable recourse. etc. etc. etc. The list is very long, documented and available.
Yet PA managed to avoid it all, the blood, sweat and tears and in record time to boot; the only case in living memory of that happening. You have only seen from afar; the tip of a very large, dirty, dangerous iceberg. Positioned safely and cocooned within a warm, sheltered environment, once removed and sanitised by Parliament, you witness the Pel Air debacle. Talk to a Siewart, Butson, Hardy or Killan; get some transcripts, get some "audit" reports, examine some NCN in the raw; and judge for your self, just exactly what we are dealing with here. Reading of swimming about in the dark is nowhere near being there, naked and undefended. Exaggerated?, no – exasperated?- yes. This is no Sunday newspaper beat up, it is real, it is now and happening in a paddock somewhere near you.
I much favour an old testament approach; an eye for an eye suits my current mood. If CASA want my respect, assistance and expertise – they must earn it back, for they have most assuredly lost it. Turn the other cheek, Bollocks....
Steam off - (Ambles off into the dust, mumbling darkly whist scratching same.)
Last edited by Kharon; 26th May 2013 at 02:49.
Reason: Certified unlubricated - probably just as well, eh?