AHIA - Air transport & aerial work operations

[Evil Twin]

A pretty disgraceful indictment to the regulator that only one working day before implementation of wholesale change that changes and compromises are still being fought and refined. Unchallenged, compliance with Part 61 would leave the WHOLE of Australia unable to use aerial assets to fight fire at the very least in the short term.

Surely, in all sense, the government, and therefore the will of the people (haha) should be intervening and telling CASA to go back and fix this 5hit before trying to push it through.

Even after a nine month delay to re-prepare for it's introduction the regulator has still manifestly failed in it's obligations to get this right. The legal aviation framework in Australia is a horses ar5e. The best possible solution would be to scrap what is there and buy a suite of rules and regs from someone else, either FAA or NZ CAA would be at least a better place to start than where they are right now.