Don't hold back Ferryman...
Please note: We pay for the service CASA provides; not the bloated bloody plutocrats blocking the changes. Man up, deep breath, support the reform, give the job to the right bloke and for once, do the right bloody thing; provide the changes which are expected and the reforms which are demanded.
On peas & cajones: Noticed that SC from the MMSM stable has been busy of late...
We don’t need any more CASA regulation: Angel Flight
Which is mostly a rehash of other Aviation MSM coverage with absolutely zilch opinion or commentary.
Next...
Tighter search-and-rescue chopper rules ‘risk lives’
Actually not too bad, gives a different perspective with new material on another long running and contentious issue but really Steve (much like the previous article) you must have some view on this??
Aviation consultant and former Civil Aviation Safety Auth*ority project manager Allister Polkinghorne said provisions in Civil Aviation Safety Regulations parts 133 and 138 could see some helicopters currently used in rescue and ambulance operations permanently parked...
...“Virtually every hospital heliport would be unavailable to anything except a helicopter with CAT A performance because the hospitals don’t have suitable forced landing areas on approach and departure paths,’’ Mr Polkinghorne said. “It will require bigger, noisier helicopters in noise and down-wash-sensitive areas.
“Where a rescue is performed for an injured patient, for example, surf rescue in a single-engine helicopter in Perth, the patient will be prevented from being transported to hospital by the new rules.’’...
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Aeromedical Society of Australasia president Graeme Field said the society supported the move to the air-transport cate*gory, but had written to CASA *expressing concerns about issues it believed needed further discussion, including the category of helicopters that could be used as an air ambulance.
He said the regulator had to be cautious that it did not make the rules so hard that the industry could not fly.
“We thought CASA needed to work more closely with state health authorities and governments in relation to these hospital landing sites,’’...
“So I think it’s important that we’re not restricted in our endeavours to make do with the available resources,’’ he said.
“While it’s fine to compare us with overseas countries, and it is useful, I think any future legislation has to take into account our uniqueness, the uniqueness of the Australian environment in which we have to provide aeromedical operations.’’
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CAsA spokesman: “However, CASA acknowledges that, in some cases, applying all of the air-transport operations suite of standards to medical transfer flights would not be practicable. Due to the highly specialised *nature of some medical transfer flights, some of the rules in the air transport operational rules will not apply.’’
“This is in recognition of the unique circumstances of a search-and-rescue situation,’’ he said. “CASA is seeking to improve the safety standard of search and rescue operations where possible, but without limiting the potential for these operations.’’
Next article is just another take on the TAAAF story carried a couple of days ago...
Deputy PM Warren Truss urged to push on with CASA shake-up
...with the addition of some rather disturbing comments from the miniscule's spokesperson...
A spokesman for Mr Truss said the government was carefully considering the 37 recommendations of the Forsyth Report and it would be tabled before year’s end.
“In relation to the commencement of CASE part 61 regulations on September 1, CASA will work with industry to enable an effective transition to the new arrangements over the next few years,’’ he said.
“In relation to part 141 (flying training) the government has agreed to regulation amendments that will reduce the administrative burden of existing requirements on the aviation industry.
“These amendments will also take effect from September 1 and allow industry to transition to the new arrangements over the next few years.’’
Still no hard nose in your face questioning, just wet lettuce comments regurgitated from a miniscule minion out of their depth and with NFI...
Next Dick is at it again..
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‘Guinea pigs’ fly courtesy of CASA, says Dick Smith
"...FORMER Civil Aviation Safety Authority chairman Dick Smith has accused the air-safety regulator of using airline passengers as “safety guinea pigs’’ and mishandling changes it made to the radio frequency used by light aircraft at some small airstrips..."
All in all not bad coverage but seriously Steve when are you going to grow a set??
Addendum to Part 61 debate - FF say 61 addresses ATsB SRs??
Courtesy Australian Flying 22 August 2014:
CASA Points to Part 61 Safety Benefits
"...In respect to lessons learnt, the points below are also relevant and where necessary competency standards, specified in the MOS [Manual of Standards], have been added or modified to address safety issues identified in ATSB recommendations..."
Part 61 has come under fire from industry groups recently, who have called for the 1 September date to be pushed out further.
Perhaps most vocal has been the Australian Helicopter Industry Association, which has voiced concerns over the availablility of the new Flight Examiners (formerly Authorised Testing Officers) to cope with demand, and has called for the new regulations to be written in plain English.
Further support to postpone CASR Parts 61, 141 and 142 have come from the Aerial Agricultural Association of Australia, the Aviation Maintenance Repair and Overhaul Business Association and from The Australian Aviation Associations Forum.
CASA has recently deferred mandatory transition to the new Flight Examiner rating by two years, and will keep the current regulations surrounding helicopter licensing until 2017.
It is believed that Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss has asked CASA for more information regarding the new regulations.
MTF...
