"Over the last four years we have invested an enormous amount of effort in this task."
So what was CAsA doing during the previous twenty years??
Oh yeah pissing a quarter of a BILLION dollars against the wall!!
"The outcome of this work is leading us further toward our goals of standardisation and consistency."
So why is CAsA required shelf ware approved in one region not approved in another?? or even approved by this FOI then an imminent risk to safety by another???
Why do five operators of the same aircraft have to operate in an entirely different manner, contrary to the manufactuers recommended procedures??
Why does an FOI with limited or no experience on type have the ability to overule those in the industry with experience and impose practices on a certificate holder that are patently unsafe??
"Flowing from this are considerable benefits for the wider Australian aviation community-including, of course, the aviation industry and CASA alike."
It is hard to pick up an Industry publication and not find some form of criticism of the so called "reform" process. I have yet to meet anyone in the industry who say they have gained "considerable benefits" from the so called "reform" process, far from it. All I hear is complaints about the cost burden being imposed.
"It is interesting to note that across the various aviation sectors accident rates have generally plateaued at relatively low levels."
Has this occured because the so called "reform" process is promoting safer operation or because the "reform" process is placing an ever increasing compliance burden on industry, driving up costs to a point where buyer resistance is dramatically reducing the amount of aviation actually being performed??
"The baseless criticism we sometimes receive—frequently misinformed, sometimes mischievous and at times personally abusive-is regrettable, unhelpful and dangerously erosive of public confidence in Australia’s system of aviation safety."
It would seem Mr J.Mac considers all the industry is wrong and he is right.
If this continues what will J. Mac's epitaph be??
Maybe Kharon will award a choccy frog or even a Tim Tam to the most original entry
Last edited by thorn bird; 24th Jun 2013 at 10:36.