Part 61 and its frayed edges is becoming yet another example of CASA's disconnection with reality. A poorly constructed tangled web of stupidity. Of course it is easy for CASA to sit in an airconditioned office, draft some rules and regulations along with a policy or two then throw it out the window for us dogs to fight over. Executives sitting on half a million dollars per year (naturally some dont even have a pilots licence) and to them $12k or even $20k is just a drop in their ocean of opulence. But to the real man/woman living in the real world this is far from reality.
Australia has a real problem here. 25 years of incompetence, continuous mismanagement of all things aviation, a group of executives that are so out of the loop that they dont know an aileron from an oil gauge. A long term Minister who has failed his portfolio, and successive senior ministers for infrastructure who only ever see rows 1 and 2 on QF's Cityflyer.
Mr Truss, you have inherited one of the worlds largest aviation lemons. Are you going to eat the proverbial sh#t sandwich, display your robust coconuts and fix this Palaver once and for all, and finally? Or are you going to spend your last few years prior to retirement living under the microscope, as although industry is being raped mercilessly not all are going to disappear my friend, not in your lifetime. Until we see the changes required, including YOU personally listening to the Senators and acting upon the findings of their enquiry.
Time for you to stop being fed mushroom material from your Lieutenant, time for you yourself to get out there and see, smell and taste what has happened to this vital industry, and time for YOU to personally take hold of these issues and fix them. You've got your hammer and bag of nails, its time to hammer the last few nails into the coffin.
Last edited by Paragraph377; 23rd Oct 2013 at 23:34.