Because many important safety concerns are reported to the ATSB through REPCON, it is vital that all of industry is aware of, and can learn from, the reported concerns.
Handing over – we can't get CASA to fix the issues; we no longer have a credible safety publication to place the valuable articles in, so we just cop out, right here. You kids out there can glean your own safety cures from the Repcon. Never mind the overseas folk, we have them trained to wait two years for the report. Who cares if life vests don't work properly, it's a unique domestic issue and anyway, we have registered our differences with ICAO. FFS.
See here, this is what we mean by cop out.
The published information will include details about safety concerns, as well as responses and safety actions taken by relevant organisations or government agencies about the concern.
Who'd expect the Safety Bureau to get the changes made eh? The NTSB must be reaching for a bucket; or perhaps the stop-me- laughing pills. Strewth....
REPCON serves to collect information about safety concerns in the aviation, marine and rail industries, to help facilitate safety action and, ultimately, improve transport safety.
Please show us one aviation item published recently where the ATSB recommendation has been taken on board and a tangible safety benefit has been produced; one 'real' one will do. It's all Bollocks – spin for the punters and the dopey politicians, who shake their wizened heads, nod sagely and do SFA except sign off on insulting responses to serious safety issues, raised by an educated Senate committee; smiling all the while....
What's wrong with this bloke, he has a good budget, good people, plenty of muscular law to support anything reasonable; so why all the Uriah Heep like hand wringing, obfuscation, humble PC crap and why, in the name of all the hells are CASA dictating the conclusions. The technical parts of the few reports we see are acceptable, definitely not stellar; but, the back few pages are completely beyond the pale. Bloody useless is how most describe them.
Fetch a bucket Minnie, a big one.