Jeez...
CASA just does NOT bloody get it!
ICAO HIGH-LEVEL SAFETY CONFERENCE 2010 held in Montréal, 29 March – 1 April 2010
SUMMARIES OF DISCUSSIONS
Topic 2.5: Implementing new safety management process
44. There was
unanimous support for the establishment of a new Annex [19] to the Convention dedicated to safety management responsibilities and processes
unanimous
/juːˈnanɪməs/
adjective
(of two or more people) fully in agreement.
"the doctors were unanimous in their diagnoses"
So, it means the Australian delegates (yes, the 9 of them)
agreed with the establishment of Annex 19.
So how come Australia has already filed a difference with paragraph 3.1.4 of ICAO Annex 19 along the lines that there is:
No existing requirement for general aviation operators of large or turbojet aeroplanes to have an SMS, however, consideration is being given to this.
Yes there bloody-well IS a requirement for those general aviation operators to have an SMS, and it's been a STANDARD in ICAO Annex 6 Part II ** which applies to those operators for some time (at least since 2008), as follows:
3.3.2 Safety management system
3.3.2.1 An operator shall establish and maintain a safety management system that is appropriate to the size and complexity of the operation.
** July 2008 edition
The
shall means it's a mandatory requirement - so there should have been some definitive action by CASA to ratify the requirement into the regulatory system by now, rather than simply (still) 'considering' the requirement (standard) nearly six years later. FFS
I really want to know how come the CASA delegates agreed with the proposed Annex 19 SMS requirements in 2010, yet CASA is still only 'considering' the SAME requirement as it relates to Annex 19 and Annex 6 Part II four years later (2014), despite the fact that its been an ICAO standard since at least 2008?
So, while we've filed a difference for GA SMS requirements per paragraph 3.1.4 OF Annex 19, there doesn't seem to be a difference filed for the same GA SMS requirement (standard) per paragraph 3.3.2.1 of ICAO Annex 6, presumably because Australian legislation doesn't specifically define 'Corporate Aviation'.
Am I missing something here, or is it a fact that these idiots (CASA management) really haven't got a clue?